Amartya Sen Quotes

For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

I've had people say, "You know, this 'Hope and Change' business, Rush, it's just as dangerous as, 'Make America Great Again,' all the specifics." And what you're really saying - even though you didn't voice this - is Barack Obama ended up being an authoritarian. He ended up being supported as an authoritarian because his wacko base wanted that stuff done - i.e., they wanted conservatives humiliated and defeated and ticked off and mad and losing everything, and they didn't care how Obama did.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.