Amartya Sen Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

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

  Amartya Sen

  Progress, Deprivation, Reduction

• I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.

  Amartya Sen

  Moving, Thinking, Views

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s wealth was based on exploiting China. Japan’s wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Thinking, Japan

• Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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