As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
