Elise M. Boulding Quotes

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

Elise M. Boulding

• War
• Peace
• Violence
• Human Beings

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • You
  • Road
  • Enjoy

• I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Children

• I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Finding

• Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Opinions
  • Most
  • Scientific

• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Open

• This dark diction has become America's addiction.

  

  Kanye West
  • America
  • Dark
  • Addiction

• When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Different
  • Guy

• Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis

• Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Real
  • True
  • Relationship

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Want
  • Happiness
  • Find

• I've always felt like an outcast. My aesthetic is very high-end, but I still get classified as streetwear. There's really no other reason for than other than my age, the way I look, and where I'm from.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • High
  • Age
  • Aesthetic

• Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Great

• In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood. (p. 211)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Money
  • War
  • Black

• Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.

  

  Haider Ackermann
  • Peace
  • Seductive

• War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • War
  • Peace
  • Violence