black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We 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 Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Day Military Peace People
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eye Feel Good Philosophy
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Genius Mother People
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Difficult Humanity Transformation
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integration Life Love
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Law Past Thinking
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Humanity Mind
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Forever Humanity Spiritual
I 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 FULLER

Earth Nouns Verbs
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

High Men Politics Standard
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 FULLER

Diversity Fate Success
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Inspirational Success
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hungry Long Race
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experience Genius Life Lesson
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Men Successful Wisdom