The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERSometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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