R. Buckminster Fuller World Quotations

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

[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.

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

How do we make the world work?

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.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.