Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
“We know now, if we know anything, that all the reasons for doing right, and all the reasons against doing wrong, are here in this world.”
Is Divorce Wrong? (1889)
Context: Marriages are made by men and women; not by society; not by the state; not by the church; not by supernatural beings. By this time we should know that nothing is moral that does not tend to the well-being of sentient beings; that nothing is virtuous the result of which is not good. We know now, if we know anything, that all the reasons for doing right, and all the reasons against doing wrong, are here in this world.
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Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
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Glacier Kwong (1996) Hong Kong human rights activist
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 38 Glacier Kwong https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-05-04/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-38/ (4 May 2021)
“We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this.”
Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this. So this was the teaching, but how do you teach it? As young people, John Lennon, George Harrison, myself, Carlos Santana and other spiritual seekers in pop music, we wanted to know the answer but we found a question: How do you convince the rest of the western world that they are ill, they are mentally ill, that they have a sickness and that they have lost the way? How do you teach that? You cannot teach that in the normal sense. You have to encourage a spiritual call, so we devoted ourselves to making songs which would have a spiritual call inside of them, hoping to awaken an awareness with this music. And other people in the arts felt the same...
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
