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 FULLERAll 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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI 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 FULLERGeniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHowever, 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.
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 FULLEREach one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI 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 FULLERThe one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll 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 FULLERTo ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERInstead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGeodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER