War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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