Amartya Sen Identity Quotations

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.

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

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

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