Amartya Sen Quotes
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Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
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
I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
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.
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
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The best place to solve a problem is on paper.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
Forget Fear, Do Something Different.
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.
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.