Amartya Sen Quotes

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

The absence of shared sacrifice in this country shames us.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has made nothing equal; her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.