“ 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
“ 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… Amartya Sen
“ Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedom… Amartya Sen
“ أن يكون المرء أذكى قد يساعده ذلك على فهم ليس فقط مصلحته الشخصية، بل كيف يمكن أن تتأثر حيوات الآخرين تأثراً شديداً بأفعاله. Amartya Sen
“ There are two principal approaches to secularism, focusing respectively on (1) neutrality between different religions, and (2) prohibition of religious associations in state activities. Amartya Sen
“ Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; … Where the clear stream of reason ha… Amartya Sen
“ The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priori… Amartya Sen
“ The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlement… Amartya Sen
“ To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local communit… Amartya Sen
“ To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understanding inescapably involves reasoning. We have to 'read' what we feel and seem to see, and ask what thos… Amartya Sen
“ An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge i… Amartya Sen
