R. Buckminster Fuller People Quotations

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.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

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.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

You never change people by fighting their existing reality.

If you change the environment, you change the people.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.