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
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others… — 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
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of… — 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
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
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
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
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each… — 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
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — 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 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
