Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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