“While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it eithe...” — Amartya Sen Quote

“While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.”

“I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.”

“While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.”

“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”

“It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.”

“I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.”

“I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.”

“Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.”

“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.”

“God requireth not a uniformity of religion.”

“I don't like religion.”

“God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?”