Buckminster Fuller quotes - page 8

If we have two spherical bodies of equal mass at a given distance from each other and insert a third spherical body of the same mass half way between the two we do not double the mass attraction between any two of the three. We increase the attraction by 2 to the second power which is 4. (Buckminster Fuller)
By the twenty-first century it either will have become evident to humanity that these questions are absurd and anti-evolutionary or men will no longer be living on Earth. View quote
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There's a built-in resistance to letting humanity be a success. View quote
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We're not just dealing in willingness. Humanity has to qualify to survive. View quote
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Humanity is moving ever deeper into a crisis which has no precedent. View quote
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Politics is absolutely hopeless. That's why everything has gone wrong. View quote
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Study your mistakes; admit them, study them, and be terribly excited about them too. If this isn't true, what is true? View quote
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You have to examine each word and ask yourself, "Is that the right word for that?" - the integrity and the courage of the individual to speak his own truth and not to go along with the crowd, yet not making others seem ignorant. View quote
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There is more recognition now that things are changing, but not because there is a political move to do it. It is simply a result of the information being there. Our survival won't depend on political or economic systems. It's going to depend on the courage of the individual to speak the truth, and to speak it lovingly and not destructively. It's saying what you really know and feel is the truth, in all directions. View quote
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Those with financial advantage reason that selfishness is necessary and fortify themselves even further. View quote
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Integrity of the individual is what we're being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don't really have the guts, we'll blow ourselves up. (Buckminster Fuller)
If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they'd almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine. View quote
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I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the intuitive wisdom of each and every individual. View quote
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A new, physically uncompromised, metaphysical initiative of unbiased integrity could unify the world. View quote
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done. View quote
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We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do. View quote
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The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. View quote
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I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it. View quote
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The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy. View quote
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Critical threshold-crossing of the inevitable revolution is already underway. View quote
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All the great metaphysical integrity of all the individuals, which is potential and inherent in the complex interactions of generalized principles, will always and only coexist eternally. (Buckminster Fuller)
I never try to tell anybody else what to do, number one. And number two, I think that's what the individual is all about. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule that I can give out, any command. View quote
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This is not a visible revolution and it is not political. View quote
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We need to find within technology that there is something we can do which is capable of taking care of everybody, and to demonstrate that this is so. View quote
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While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing. View quote
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