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.
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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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