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What exists, is possible.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The trouble with taxonomic boxes is ... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
— Kenneth E. Boulding
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?
— Kenneth E. Boulding
We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Communication can only take place among equals.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists ... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Production functions involving only land, labor and capital ... never work and never explain economic development.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market ... the higher the black market price.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The concept of a value-free science is absurd.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The process of consumption ... is the final act in the economic drama
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
![Kenneth Boulding Quotes By Kenneth E. Boulding: Integrative power [is] the ultimate power](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/kenneth-boulding-quotes-by-kenneth-e-boulding-781303.jpg "Kenneth Boulding Quotes By Kenneth E. Boulding: Integrative power [is] the ultimate power")
Integrative power [is] the ultimate power
— Kenneth E. Boulding
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order ... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.
— Kenneth E. Boulding