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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERChildren are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHistory’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERReal wealth is ideas plus energy.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDegrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERControlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’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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