Quotes from Kenneth E. Boulding

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.

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

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

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

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

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

We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.