Top 15 Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability–whether they are easily measured or not.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits."

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one‟s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover...

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power