We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
R. Buckminster Fuller