Buckminster Fuller quotes

" Integrity is the essence of everything successful. " # Integrity

" Love is metaphysical gravity. " # Love # Humor # Metaphysics

" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. " # Humankind # Architecture # The future

" Our power is in our ability to decide. " # Power

" Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. " # Mind # Politicians and Politics # Love

" I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. " # Genius # Freedom # Power

" Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. " # Mistakes

" I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth? " # Politicians and Politics # Government # Courage

" I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. I don't think of my feet as a right foot and a wrong foot. ... I am a student of the effectiveness of the technological evolution in its all unexpected alterations of the preoccupations of humanity and in its all unexpected alterings of human behaviors and prospects. " # Evolution # Behavior # Technology

" When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima as the worst single killing of humans by humans. That was about a 75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each year, year after year, a 75,000-capacity-stadiumfull of around-the-world humans perish from starvation or its side effects, despite an annual average 5-percent world food-production overage of the amount of food adequate for the total world's population. This daily kill of innocents dwarfs the awful Auschwitz killing. " # Travel and Tourism # Photography # Books - Reading