Elise Boulding
(1920-)

"Mother of Peace Research"
1990 AFSC Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005

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birthplace:
Oslo, Norway

QUOTES

There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

"The range of human activity that can be retuned to contribute to peace-building is vast."

We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”

We’re never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water – if very young children don’t begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.”

 

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