Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

They are not multi-national, but supra-national — above nations. They don't need any passports. They can go in and out of countries without permission from anyone.

The giants are the supra-national corporations. The book (Grunch of Giants) is about how evolution must cope with them.

Max Planck says, "The opposition never yields; they just die off." It's just a question of time. They are dying off.

But it can hardly be read in a week. It takes some study.

Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation.

Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole.

There is so much stupid information, misinformation around. You can't really get anywhere until you get out from under all that.

The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt.

The politicians still say that it's you or me, and that's why they go for the gun.

Up to now, the world of politics doesn't know that. That's why all nations are dependent on armaments, why we have the arms race.

But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That's why the idea of scarcity is all wrong.

That's the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there's not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.

Politics is policy. What policy should you follow in view of the idea that there isn't enough to go around — the power of the few, or the needs of the many? Political economy is based on misassumptions...

It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.