Amartya Sen Military Quotes

Quotes about: Military

• 80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Party

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

• The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

  Amartya Sen

  Military, Taken, Government

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

• I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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