R. Buckminster Fuller

“Dictators never invent their own opportunities.”

“A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.”

“If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.”

“Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.”

“My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.”

“By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.”

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”

“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.”

“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”

“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”

“Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.”

“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”

“Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”

“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”

“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”

“Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.”

“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”