“Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Its not that we dont need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.” NeedsShouldMatterEconomyInstitutionsPrioritiesUnfairUnjustGlobalizationDominanceMarket Economy Author:Amartya Sen
“We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.” WorldNeedsDifferentPoliticalSocialEconomicTypeInstitutionsRecognizing Author:Amartya Sen
“Its scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsFeelsCareDiesMedicalHungryMiserableHopelessIlliterateMedical CareScandalous Author:Amartya Sen
“We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.” WorldNeedsHumansAsksViewsMoralPovertyIssuesRichInequality Author:Amartya Sen
“Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenDifferentCountryBigsGovernmentSchoolDesireOpportunityParentDifferencesProgressPressureDefenseOpeningEducatedFasterDramaticComparisonFundingFeesExpendituresDifferent Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want.” WantNeedsShouldFirstsReasonLevelsReason WhyNo ReasonSchooling Author:Amartya Sen
“Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jobs. It makes a dramatic difference. It generates a social equity that we need.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsHumansJobsSocialDifferencesHuman BeingsDramaticEquity Author:Amartya Sen
“There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.” NeedsLooksReasonSchoolVisionCostDeterminationReason WhyExpensiveNo ReasonMore MoneyExpandingTextbooksAvailability Author:Amartya Sen
“The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.” WorldNeedsDifferentLyingSimpleGroupsDiversityToleranceRecognitionReachingDividedBrotherhoodAssociationHoping For The BestUnity In DiversityHardenedAffiliationCategorization Author:Amartya Sen
“But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.” WorldNeedsIdeasSometimesCultureTakenCivilizationDiversityWesternHumanismPessimismBrotherhoodProspectsUnity In Diversity Author:Amartya Sen
