black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Events Fundamental Pattern
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Continous Programming Tensegrity
You can’t learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Education Inspirational Teacher
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Divorce Education Lost Love
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Generalized Giving Mind Special
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Boards Earth Four
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mistake More Smarter
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Child Children Newborn Years
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Additional Problem Solved Unknown
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

High Men Politics Standard
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Design Men
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Determine Initiative Self Spring
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play