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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth E. Boulding
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Kenneth E. Boulding
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: January 18
Died: 1993
Died: March 18
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Ewart 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.
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Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
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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.
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Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
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If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
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All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
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The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.
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Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?
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Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.
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The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
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In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
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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.
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The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.
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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.
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The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.
Kenneth E. Boulding
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
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Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.
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If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
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