Kenneth E. Boulding

What exists, is possible.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Communication can only take place among equals.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— 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…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of…

— 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

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or…

— 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