Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

- Amartya Sen

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

- Amartya Sen

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

- Amartya Sen

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

- Amartya Sen

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rath…

- Amartya Sen

The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring …

- Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value

- Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

- Amartya Sen

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable i…

- Amartya Sen