The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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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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Television is the third parent.
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