Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. R. Buckminster Fuller important earth book I look for what needs to be done R. Buckminster Fuller looks art needs How much does your building weigh? R. Buckminster Fuller technology space challenges It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. R. Buckminster Fuller break-through today facts 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. R. Buckminster Fuller following kind thinking The more we learn the more we realize how little we know. R. Buckminster Fuller realizing knows littles We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. R. Buckminster Fuller support wisdom war Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. R. Buckminster Fuller psychology choices desire Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time? R. Buckminster Fuller successful humanity world Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective. R. Buckminster Fuller obvious humanity numbers on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals R. Buckminster Fuller priorities design order Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. R. Buckminster Fuller social-behavior tasks humanity Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. R. Buckminster Fuller feel-good eye philosophy I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together. R. Buckminster Fuller radiation together love ... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably. R. Buckminster Fuller reform giving men Don't change the man. Change his environment. R. Buckminster Fuller environment he-man men In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere. R. Buckminster Fuller horse two years U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public. R. Buckminster Fuller leader men mean There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. R. Buckminster Fuller cities new-york average Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. R. Buckminster Fuller political military humanity