“Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.” WayFirstsFactsOpportunityMoonLibertarianDefinedOne WayCapabilityOwnershipDefiningAstronautEquality Of OpportunityCraters Author:Amartya Sen
“Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.” HumansDoeStatesOpportunitySocialExampleDependsIncomeHuman Life Author:Amartya Sen
“The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.” WayGovernmentSchoolOpportunitySupportOur LivesIncomeArrangementsFacilityTransport Author:Amartya Sen
“We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.” WorldOpportunityCommunityPovertyCasesEconomicContact 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
“The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.” ThinkingWayKindFactsSchoolChristianHumanityOpportunityReligiousViewsSeeingOne ThingIdentityCivilizationAll KindsBuddhistJust OneClashCultural IdentityNational IdentityClash Of CivilizationsReligious Identity Author:Amartya Sen
“Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.” WorldGivingHumansSchoolOpportunityHuman BeingsVisionIdentityCitizensHatredMissionsEnormous Author:Amartya Sen
“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.” WayCareOpportunityIndiaIncludingGenderPracticalsObsessionMy WayHealth CareAwardsLiteracyEquityNobelBangladesh Author:Amartya Sen
“I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.” IfsThinkingShouldRealOpportunityGivenWomenEqualityArguingIndianWomens Rights Author:Amartya Sen
“The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own” ReasonValuesOpportunityEducationIgnoranceImportanceSakeEducationalObjectivesInequalityCapabilityLiteracyEliminationIlliteracy Book:Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives Source: Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives
“Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.” OpportunityChallengesPovertyInspireProvokingDeprivation Author:Amartya Sen
“Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.” WellsStatesOpportunitySocialPoorPovertyEconomicSourceDevelopmentMajorsTyrannyNeglectIntoleranceFacilitySystematicDeprivation Book:Development as Freedom Source: Development as Freedom
“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.” PeopleSometimesOpportunityEnjoyWaterPovertyEconomicAchieveCleanHungerIllnessRelateSufficientNutritionRemedyHomelessFacilityClean WaterSanitary Book:Development as Freedom Source: Development as Freedom
