The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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