R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

I try to do the right thing.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.