Prashant Wadnere

“Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.”
― Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom

“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, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace