"Are we to regard the world of nature……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?"
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25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians.…
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The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human…
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and…
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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an…
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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
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The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship,…
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can…
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It…
— Steve Ballmer
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the…
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Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in…
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons…
— Ben Affleck
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Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions…
— Eli Broad
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that…
— Harry Browne
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big…
— Bill Bryson
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song,…
— Julie Burchill
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
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