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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- 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
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- 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
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- 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
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- 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
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
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- 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
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- 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
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tension is the great integrity.
- 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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- 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
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- 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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
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