We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Doing more with less.
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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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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Television is the third parent.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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