Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Eye, Maturity, Feet

• [The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Opposites, Community, Matter

• Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Community, Problem, Conflict

  "The diminishing returns of science" by Kenneth Boulding in "New Scientist", Vol. 49, nr. 744, p. (682), March 25, 1971.

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