105 quotes
I find people only listen to you when they ask you to talk to them.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic.
Synergetics : Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
There is so much stupid information, misinformation around. You can't really get anywhere until you get out from under all that.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
Critical Path (1981)
The politicians still say that it's you or me, and that's why they go for the gun.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
Grunch of Giants (1983)
Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
Grunch of Giants (1983)
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
Gravity is the inwardly cohering force acting integratively on all systems. Radiation is the outwardly disintegrating force acting divisively upon all systems.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
If you think in terms of people divided up into countries, you won't follow me. The idea of countries is going by the boards. Young people are getting wonderfully uprooted and they're too strong to get sucked into this 'country' crap.
The opposite of nature is impossible.
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad — or as positive and negative — are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
Critical Path (1981)
That's the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there's not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Up to now, the world of politics doesn't know that. That's why all nations are dependent on armaments, why we have the arms race.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The required and scientifically designed secrecy of the sea operations thus pulled a curtain that hid the Leonardos from public view, popular ken, and recorded history. p. 25
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969)
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.