Quotes from Elise M. Boulding

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.