Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
BUCKMINSTER FULLEREither war is obsolete, or men are.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
-
-
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Man knows so much and does so little.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Don’t fight forces, use them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Love is metaphysical gravity.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER






