There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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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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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.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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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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