Amartya Sen Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

  Amartya Sen

  Poverty, Full Potential, Realizing

• Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Challenges, Inspire

• 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.

• 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

• Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Development, Systematic

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.3, Anchor

• Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Water, People

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

• I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Poverty, Problem

• Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

  Amartya Sen

  Freedom, Poverty, Sometimes

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

• I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

  Amartya Sen

  Educational, Expansion, Poverty

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

  Amartya Sen

  Meals, Layers, Next

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

• 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.

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