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Amartya Sen Quote: “Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.”

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

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.”

52. “Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.”

— Amartya Sen

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

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

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.”

54. “Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.”

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

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.”

56. “Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.”

57. “The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”

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

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.”

59. “In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty.”

60. “Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.”

61. “When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.”

— Amartya Sen

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

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

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.”

63. “To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.”

65. “It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.”

66. “So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “I have not had any serious non-academic job.”

67. “I have not had any serious non-academic job.”

— Amartya Sen

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

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

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.”

69. “I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.”

71. “The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: ‘For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.”

72. “Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: ‘For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “The case for doing what one sees as one’s duty must be strong, but how can we be indifferent to the consequences that may follow from our doing what we take to be our just duty?”

73. “The case for doing what one sees as one’s duty must be strong, but how can we be indifferent to the consequences that may follow from our doing what we take to be our just duty?”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “Important as history is, reasoning has to go beyond the past.”

74. “Important as history is, reasoning has to go beyond the past.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “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.”

75. “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.”

— Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Quote: “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.”

76. “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.”

— Amartya Sen

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