Elise M. Boulding

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off…

— Elise M. Boulding

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is…

— Elise M. Boulding

We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means.…

— Elise M. Boulding

We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air,…

— Elise M. Boulding

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

— Elise M. Boulding

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of…

— Elise M. Boulding

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

— Elise M. Boulding

For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot…

— Elise M. Boulding

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

— Elise M. Boulding

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

— Elise M. Boulding

A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's…

— 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…

— Elise M. Boulding

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

— Elise M. Boulding

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

— Elise M. Boulding