Quotes About Sen

#1. [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Amartya Sen

#2. I sit beside the moment
That stares at silence
Before anything could happen

Sayantan Sen

#3. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

Amartya Sen

#4. Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

Amartya Sen

#5. There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Amartya Sen

#6. Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

Amartya Sen

#7. But think of me fondly right till the end. Think of me always as your brother's friend. Think of me whenever you see an Amrood tree. Think of me on cold winter nights.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

#8. This is a breakthrough to science! How can I destroy it? It is beautiful! I have never encountered an unequally conjoined twin that was alive!"
Dr. Lisa Sen The Malevolent Twin

Mary Sage Nguyen

#9. Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Amartya Sen

#10. From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Amartya Sen

#11. 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

#12. The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Amartya Sen

#13. One day, you would see,
You have dropped your attire,
The dirt you are carrying on your shoulder
And your entire self!

Sayantan Sen

#14. Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Amartya Sen

#15. The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

Stuart Rothenberg

#16. I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn't always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

Amartya Sen

#17. You know it feels good. I can hardly geta ... I don't even ...
There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime.

Charlotte Stein

#18. Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Amartya Sen

#19. Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

Amartya Sen

#20. Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.

Alison Lundergan Grimes

#21. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

Chiang Kai-shek

#22. Even though I'm pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They're putting important issues on the agenda.

Amartya Sen

#23. Every time I see a girl, I search for that innocence that she lost while growing up, under the burden of being a 'Commodity' and pressure of 'Community

Rishiraj Sen

#24. Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want you to know that.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

#25. Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

Rinku Sen

#26. [Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

Calvin Coolidge

#27. In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

Amartya Sen

#28. Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

Dave Barry

#29. Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

Hillary Clinton

#30. [N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen

#31. Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Amartya Sen

#32. Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

Amartya Sen

#33. The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.

Amartya Sen

#34. My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#35. When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.

Sen No Rikyu

#36. We want to see all demonstrations stopped.

Hun Sen

#37. The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple.

Amartya Sen

#38. [it] may have hastened his move to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism ... The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then ... It may be that we are all just older and wiser.

Roger Wicker

#39. [Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy's partner and Michael Dukakis's running mate.

David S. Broder

#40. There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

Amartya Sen

#41. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

John Lewis

#42. Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

Hun Sen

#43. It's scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

Amartya Sen

#44. I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

Amartya Sen

#45. Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#46. Know what you want - and get it

Sushmita Sen

#47. To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.

Amartya Sen

#48. I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

Hun Sen

#49. The basic difference between the two phenomenon is that, global warming causes heating effect in the earth's atmosphere, whereas global dimming causes cooling effect.

Sanjit Sen

#50. Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.

Scott Howell

#51. A new Republican Congress is taking over. Sen. Ted Cruz has been appointed tooverseeing NASA in Congress. He says he wants NASA to focus on finding aliens so he can deport them.

Conan O'Brien

#52. If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#53. No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Amartya Sen

#54. For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.

Pol Pot

#55. Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.

Rinku Sen

#56. We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

Hun Sen

#57. Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and ... clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.

Jay Leno

#58. Has anyone sen Mr Snark "
"I saw him in the tunnel about 15 minutes ago."
"Oh no " wailed Dr Ferman "he will have been atomised."
"Oh dear" muttered an MP. "Bye-election.

Alexander McCall Smith

#59. One has to be realistic. One's concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That's very important.

Amartya Sen

#60. Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Hun Sen

#61. Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.

James Dobson

#62. The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

Sun Yat-sen

#63. She taught me how to wear a Tangail saree, she taught me Julius Caesar. She taught me how to deal with the pain of a broken heart.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

#64. Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.

Amartya Sen

#65. We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.

Elizabeth Emken

#66. Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get the answer: Exactly as he did in the majority. Republicans would be wise to understand what he's up to ...

Kimberley Strassel

#67. Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

Sun Yat-sen

#68. To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

Amartya Sen

#69. If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

Bernard Kerik

#70. because none has survived. In those days the best stone

Subhadra Sen Gupta

#71. A less expensive option that expats still trust is Sen Sok University Hospital.

Lina Goldberg

#72. The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

Hun Sen

#73. Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

John Jay Hooker

#74. Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

Amartya Sen

#75. The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

Amartya Sen

#76. Why weren't you beautiful? That would've solved everything.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

#77. self-annihilation is necessary for high art

Kunal Sen

#78. one must go through war to reach peace.4

Amartya Sen

#79. Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,
They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;
For in their speech is death, hell in their smile.
[It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace:
Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida,
Si tra se volge.]

Torquato Tasso

#80. The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy ... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

Amartya Sen

#81. The whole truth is a luxury. In case you are looking for it, a courtroom isn't the place to either start or end the search.

Avirook Sen

#82. I'm really looking forward to both meeting with Sen. [Bernie] Sanders as soon as our campaign teams find a time that works for both of us and talking with him about how we are going to defeat Donald Trump and then how the goals that he and I share can be achieved.

Hillary Clinton

#83. It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Amartya Sen

#84. How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

Sen No Rikyu

#85. The whole world is one family.

Sun Yat-sen

#86. The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.

Amartya Sen

#87. People are chasing happiness
Cars are chasing destinations
Children are chasing new toys
And rest of all are chasing
What's not here yet.

Sayantan Sen

#88. The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

Amartya Sen

#89. I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

Amartya Sen

#90. Democracy is a universal value

Amartya Sen

#91. The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Hun Sen

#92. Whenever you think of color you must think of us.

Gautam Sen

#93. Development 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

#94. The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, -Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa-to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

Amartya Sen

#95. The price for this tea is anything from a hundred in gold to a half sen. If you want to drink free, that's all right too. I'm only sorry I can't let you have it for less.

Baisao

#96. I not only weaken the opposition, I'm going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

Hun Sen

#97. Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Amartya Sen

#98. The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit ... they are just a heap of loose sand ... Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

Sun Yat-sen

#99. The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power.

Rinku Sen

#100. I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Amartya Sen