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

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. — Amartya Sen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity. — Amartya Sen

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. — Amartya Sen

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

one must go through war to reach peace.4 — Amartya Sen

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

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

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

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

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. — Amartya Sen

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

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

Democracy is a universal value — Amartya Sen

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics. — Amartya Sen

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

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

Empowering women is key to building a future we want — Amartya Sen

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have not had any serious non-academic job. — Amartya Sen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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? — Amartya Sen

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

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