Amartya Sen Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

  Amartya Sen

  Knowledge, Fighting, Class

• There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

  Amartya Sen

  Ideas, Identity, Kind

  "Think a West Tolerant Intolerance Against Muslims Is Wrong and Dangerous". Interview with Mario Baudino, La Stampa, January 30, 2003.

• the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

  Amartya Sen

  Discovery, Choices, Identity

• 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 priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

  Amartya Sen

  Loyalty, Giving, People

• 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

• Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Identity, Violence

  Amartya Sen (2007). “Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny”, p.2, Penguin Books India

• 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.

• The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Identity, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

• 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.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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