R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.

I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.