Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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