The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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