R. Buckminster Fuller

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A fool with a tool still remains a fool.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations.…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You either make sense or you make money.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If you change the environment, you change the people.

— R. Buckminster Fuller