Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTo ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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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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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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You can’t learn less.
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Television is the third parent.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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