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 FULLERThe purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREither war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThese are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThink of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFreeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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.
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