Elise Boulding Quotes

#1. The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.

Stewart Brand

#2. She's adorable ." "How would you know?" "I'm gay, not blind. Her hair's all poofy and she's got a great nose. I mean, a great nose. And, what? What do you people like? Boobs? She seems to have boobs. They seem to be of approximately normal boob size. What else do you want?

John Green

#3. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

Elise M. Boulding

#4. A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

Jerry Brown

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

Elise M. Boulding

#6. War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

Elise M. Boulding

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

Elise M. Boulding

#8. Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Elise M. Boulding

#9. Life is your master, or death it.

Laini Taylor

#10. In the person of Your Son, You have spoken the world into being. He is the Light of the World, and through Him Light was made.

Stephen C. Magee

#11. We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.

Elise M. Boulding

#12. Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Elise Boulding

#13. A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

Elise M. Boulding

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

Elise M. Boulding

#15. Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.

William James

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

Elise M. Boulding

#17. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

William Hazlitt

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

Elise M. Boulding

#19. Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

Elise M. Boulding

#20. Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious as the prerequisite knowledge required for justification makes this a circular definition.

Chris Matakas

#21. I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

Beau Bridges