The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTo 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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