Amartya Sen Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

  Amartya Sen

  Race, People, Giving

  Amartya Sen (1999). “Reason Before Identity: The Romanes Lecture for 1998”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

  Amartya Sen

  Community, Freedom Of Speech, Able

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

• It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

  Amartya Sen

  Community, Identity, Incredibles

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s 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.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Community, World

• There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, People, Community

• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

  Amartya Sen

  College, Community, Students

• 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 community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

  Amartya Sen

  Eye, Assessment, Justice

  Amartya Sen (2009). “The Idea of Justice”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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