“When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.” IdeasFacesMillionsGoneCostDeterminationArgumentIncrediblesRussiaCommunismGood IdeasSocialistUtopiaBad Ideas Author:Martin Amis
“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