Amartya Sen Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Humanity, Important

  Amartya Sen (2004). “Rationality and Freedom”, p.51, Harvard University Press

• 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 entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Rights, People

  Amartya Sen (2010). “The Idea of Justice”, p.179, Penguin UK

• 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.

  Amartya Sen

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Thinking, Availability

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.

  Amartya Sen

  Real, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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