Amartya Sen Quotes About Inequality

Quotes about: Inequality

• We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

  Amartya Sen

  Views, Issues, Needs

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

• I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

  Amartya Sen

  Believe, World, Kind

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

• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

• You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Poverty, Inequality

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

• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, Long, Role Models

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Children, Pregnancy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

  Amartya Sen

  Problem, Gender, Inequality

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Japan, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

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