Amartya Sen Quotes

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

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

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

Social justice and economics are both issues to me.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

I came from a family who believed in the “Rights of Man,” who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.