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Quotes from Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics — Buckminster Fuller

1895–1983 United States

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Max Planck says, "The opposition never yields; they just die off." It's just a question of time. They are dying off.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

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)

The politicians still say that it's you or me, and that's why they go for the gun.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

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 giants are the supra-national corporations. The book (Grunch of Giants) is about how evolution must cope with them.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

But it can hardly be read in a week. It takes some study.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

They are not multi-national, but supra-national — above nations. They don't need any passports. They can go in and out of countries without permission from anyone.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That's why the idea of scarcity is all wrong.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole.

Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Buckminster Fuller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.