As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whether 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?
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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