Kenneth Quotes

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Don’t answer to sick, or broke, or worn out any longer.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

God loves you just as much as He loves Jesus!

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.

If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.

Love is when you would go to the very end of the world with her, and in case she feels weary and tired in between the journey, you would carry her till the end.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.