R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

The world which we now live in must be transformed, yet there is a dearth of ideas about how it is to be done.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

The history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Incremental change does not change lives.

Ours is a constitution of government destined to be the primitive and precious model of what is to change the condition of man over the globe.

… we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic change.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.