435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

"One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs."

"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."

"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper."

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

"To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog."

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living."

"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

"Either man is obsolete or war is.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."

"The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."