However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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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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