435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

[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.

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

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

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.