130 Quotes by Amartya Sen

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

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

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

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

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

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

The progress of the pure theory of social choice with an expanded informational base was, in this sense, quite crucial for my applied work as well.

I loved that breadth, and also the fact that in interpreting Indian civilization itself, its cultural diversity was much emphasized.