130 Quotes by Amartya Sen

People’s identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way – quite suddenly – to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

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.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality.

Democracy is a universal value.

He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at Santiniketan had many progressive features. The emphasis here was on self-motivation rather than on discipline, and on fostering intellectual curiosity rather than competitive excellence.

The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

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