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What exists, is possible.

[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is ... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

Communication can only take place among equals.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists ... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital ... never work and never explain economic development.

The fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market ... the higher the black market price.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

The process of consumption ... is the final act in the economic drama

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order ... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.