Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

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

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.