Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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