Amartya Sen Quotes

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

The Negro today perhaps has more political power than ever before and he is worse off than ever before. It is not votes but dollars that count in this civilization.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

India's future has to be built on the foundation of social protection of the economically and socially handicapped sections.

A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth

We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.