kenneth quotes

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.
Kenneth Boulding

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.
Kenneth Boulding

I have invented something which . . . I have been calling "Senesh's Law" - That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.
Kenneth Boulding

In the case of highly complex realities . . .ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.
Kenneth Boulding

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.
Kenneth Boulding

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.
Kenneth Boulding

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.
Kenneth Boulding

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.
Kenneth Boulding

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.
Kenneth Boulding

The only final good is the quality of human life.
Kenneth Boulding

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.
Kenneth Boulding