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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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[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.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Children 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?”
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History’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.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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