R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

We can bring health care back to the states and bring power back to patients. I think of that commercial from 1984 when Apple took a hammer and broke the screen.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

While the problems facing the country are huge, it is in times of great disruption that we can make the most important changes to our society and help to rebuild our fractured, broken politics.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts. That's something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump's done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness.