Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

- Elise M. Boulding

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

- Elise M. Boulding

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

- Elise M. Boulding

We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We…

- Elise M. Boulding

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.

- Elise M. Boulding

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways f…

- Elise M. Boulding

A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the li…

- Elise M. Boulding

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

- Elise M. Boulding

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

- Elise M. Boulding