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What exists, is possible.
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
Integrative power [is] the ultimate power
We make our tools, and then they shape us.
The concept of a value-free science is absurd.
Communication can only take place among equals.
Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.
The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.
If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?
The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.
The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.
Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.
The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
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.
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.