Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes About Conflict

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  • Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

    "Conflict and defense: A general theory" by Kenneth Boulding, (p. 5), 1964.
  • Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.

  • Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

    Loss   Gains   Conflict  
    "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1958.
  • [Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

  • 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.

    "The diminishing returns of science" by Kenneth Boulding in "New Scientist", Vol. 49, nr. 744, p. (682), March 25, 1971.
  • One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

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