We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. R. Buckminster Fuller inspirational-lifetryinginspirational If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller givingpeoplethinking The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole. R. Buckminster Fuller supportgreekgoal I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe. R. Buckminster Fuller nounsverbsearth [My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. R. Buckminster Fuller visionhumanityworld A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller designsynthesisartist Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe. R. Buckminster Fuller lawintegritymen The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. R. Buckminster Fuller inspirationallifepeople I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely. R. Buckminster Fuller specialtryingthinking Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller faithbelievethinking If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done. R. Buckminster Fuller survivaltasksorder Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony. R. Buckminster Fuller uniqueperfectgiving I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth? R. Buckminster Fuller governmentresponsibilitythinking The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. R. Buckminster Fuller persistencedarkthinking People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. R. Buckminster Fuller shipslightpeople Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers. R. Buckminster Fuller leadermenwar The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. R. Buckminster Fuller devotion 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 selfheartintegrity We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth. R. Buckminster Fuller shouldletting-golife It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. R. Buckminster Fuller humanityyesterdayinspirational
