War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- 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
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces, use them.
- 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
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
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- 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
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
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- 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
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- 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
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- 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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- 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
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- 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
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- 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
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- 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
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
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
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
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