Kenneth Ewart Boulding Quotes: The Truth About Exponential Growth in a Finite World
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
“Through the artifices of banking and monetary policy one can achieve only a temporary illusion of improvement, which must ultimately lead to an even more severe catastrophe. For the longer this artificial boom is sustained by the creation of additional credit, the greater the damage inflicted on general prosperity by the use of such measures.”
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
“Narrow-mindedness as raison d’état. Whether compulsory vaccination, the energy transition, or socio-political coercive measures: in Germany, there is a dogged insistence on every course once chosen, even when it has long since been disproven by reality. One cause is the prevailing cult of consensus, which treats any intellectual flexibility with suspicion. Thus, a fatal bunker mentality has emerged.”
Alexander Grau
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
Woodrow Wilson
“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“This is why you have labels for anyone expressing skepticism of establishment narratives like “conspiracy theorist”, “useful idiot”, “Russian asset” or “Assadist”; the powerful people who understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the world need labels to separate the faithful from the heathens. It means the same thing as “heretic”.”
Caitlin Johnstone
“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.”
Friedrich August von Hayek
“Germany is a supertanker—but sitting in the bridge is not the Federal Chancellor. Sitting there are the people here on this podium.”
Ernst-Moritz Lipp
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.”
Henry Louis Mencken
