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Communication can only take place among equals.

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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Economist
Philosopher
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University Teacher
City of Liverpool
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
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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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Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.
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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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[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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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
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What exists, is possible.
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The economy of the future might be called the spaceman economy, in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.
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The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
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The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
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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 controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.
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Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
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We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.
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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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There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.
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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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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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A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
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