We 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 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 FULLERAnd this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThis will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTechnologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERInitiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAnd we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERQuite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER