The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.