[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it took a similar interest in education, it could make a difference.
Amartya SenWhile I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
Amartya SenI think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.
Amartya SenDevelopment requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.
Amartya Sen