We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. R. Buckminster Fuller transformation difficult humanity The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment. R. Buckminster Fuller initiative environment thinking If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? R. Buckminster Fuller spectacular planets peace There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. R. Buckminster Fuller typewriters sleep beautiful I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. R. Buckminster Fuller look-up humanity looks There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. R. Buckminster Fuller crisis energy ignorance There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough. R. Buckminster Fuller hippie people thinking There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. R. Buckminster Fuller design wisdom men War is obsolete.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. R. Buckminster Fuller fighting war peace Our power is in our ability to decide. R. Buckminster Fuller ability power success There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. R. Buckminster Fuller able humanity joy You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience. R. Buckminster Fuller senses consciousness Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller valentines-day love life By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." R. Buckminster Fuller air water years Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. R. Buckminster Fuller spectacular mistake However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before. R. Buckminster Fuller wisdom jobs country Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. R. Buckminster Fuller philosopher artist today 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. R. Buckminster Fuller garden hate nature You can never learn less; you can only learn more. R. Buckminster Fuller learning hard-work inspirational If you change the environment, you change the people. R. Buckminster Fuller environment ifs people