Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit Kenneth E. Boulding More Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding More Quotes From Kenneth E. Boulding Communication can only take place among equals. Kenneth E. Boulding communication [Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively. Kenneth E. Boulding praxis conflict process All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information. Kenneth E. Boulding orderly information loss 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 consumerism argument favors [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 distance military moving The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself. Kenneth E. Boulding knights events together Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. Kenneth E. Boulding sociologists economist physicist Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish. Kenneth E. Boulding nervous simple brain Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it. Kenneth E. Boulding political ignorance people 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. Kenneth E. Boulding light self thinking The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them. Kenneth E. Boulding ghetto distance space Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress. Kenneth E. Boulding horse men mean Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed. Kenneth E. Boulding wife husband men One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both theoretical and empirical knowledge. Adequate theoretical models extend up to about the fourth level, and not much beyond. Empirical knowledge is deficient at practically all levels. Kenneth E. Boulding giving way ideas Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. Kenneth E. Boulding standards elegance bars What exists, is possible. Kenneth E. Boulding 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. Kenneth E. Boulding resilience diversity creativity There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems. Kenneth E. Boulding economics problem social The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love. Kenneth E. Boulding power-of-love form fundamentals Integrative power [is] the ultimate power Kenneth E. Boulding ultimate-power ultimate
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