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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Even though I'm pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They're putting important issues on the agenda.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

one must go through war to reach peace.4

On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Democracy is a universal value

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

I don't think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

You can't prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don't the governments stop them?

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.