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Famous Amartya Sen Quotes
“A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.”
“Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.”
“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty”
“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”
“Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.”
“From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.”
“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.”
“I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.”
“I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.”
“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”
“No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.”
“No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.”
“Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.”