This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"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." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. You can deceive others, you can deceive your brain-self, but you can't deceive your mind-self — for mind deals only in the discovery of truth and the interrelationship of all truths. The cosmic laws with which mind deals are noncorruptible. Cosmic evolution is omniscient God comprehensively articulate." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"We evolute toward ever lesser brain comprehension lags — ergo, toward ever diminishing error; ergo, ever diminishing misunderstandings; ergo, ever diminishing fear, and its brain-lagging painful errors of objectivity; wherefore we approach eternal instantaneity of absolute and total comprehension. The eternal instantaneity of no lag at all. However, we have now learned from our generalizations of the great complexity of the interactions of principles as we are disembarrassed of our local, exclusively physical chemistry of information-sensing devices — that what is approached is eternal and instant awareness of absolute reality of all that ever existed. All the great metaphysical integrity of all the individuals, which is potential and inherent in the complex interactions of generalized principles, will always and only coexist eternally." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do." - Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
"Despite the cascade of empirical evidence that even the present scale human economic activity threatens to undermine the integrity of the ecosphere, there is little evidence in the international policy arena that mainstream institutions are seriously willing to consider abandoning perpetual growth machine. Indeed, policy makers generally believe that the Malthusian dilemma and concerns about ‘limits to growth’ have long been put to rest." - William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel
"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business." - Raymond Chandler, fully Raymond Thornton Chandler
"Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by its citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives." - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, fully Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale
"Now listen here: Printing top secret information... I don't care how they feel about the war. Whether they're for or against it. They can't and should not do this and attack the integrity of government and by God, I'm gonna fight that son of a bitching paper. They don't know what's gonna hit them now." - Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon
"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do." - Roy L. Smith, aka Mr. Methodist
"That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both." - Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
"Eugene Dubois is no hero in my book, if only because I share the spirit of his unorthodoxies, but disagree so strongly with his version, and regard his supporting arguments as so weakly construed and so willfully blind to opposing evidence (the dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without)." - Stephan Jay Gould
"The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright." - Stephan Jay Gould
"For the first, every atheist is a grand fool. If he were not a fool, he would not imagine a thing so contrary to the stream of the universal reason of the world, contrary to the rational dictates of his own soul, and contrary to the testimony of every creature, and link, in the chain of creation: if he were not a fool, he would not strip himself of humanity, and degrade himself lower than the most despicable brute." - Stephen Charnock
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor." - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
"The environmental crisis can only be forestalled when there is a broad new cultural understanding of what it means to be human. Sources of this new understanding would be myth – New Story…… a spiritually based on an understanding of nature as the primary revelation of the divine" - Thomas Berry
"I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet." - Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." - Thomas Jefferson
"With nations, as with individuals, our interests soundly calculated, will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties; and history bears witness to the fact, that a just nation is taken on its word, when recourse is had to armaments, and wars to bridle others." - Thomas Jefferson
"If I insist on giving you my truth, and never stop to receive your truth in return, then there can be no truth between us." - Thomas Merton
"This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us." - Thomas Merton
"Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love." - Thomas Paine
"I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it." - Willem de Kooning
"My native place was [alive] with old legends, tales, traditions, customs and superstitions; so that in my early youth, even beyond the walls of my own humble roof, they met me in every direction." - William Carleton
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may." - William Cobbett
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." - William Congreve
"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!" - Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
"When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be." - Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
"I believe in pride of race and lineage and self - in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves." - W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
"One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph." - Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
"What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled and animated; how once hands were busy with hooks and buttons; how once the looking-glass had held a face; had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned, a hand flashed, the door opened, in came children rushing and tumbling; and went out again. Now, day after day, light turned, like a flower reflected in water, its sharp image on the wall opposite. Only the shadows of the trees, flourishing in the wind, made obeisance on the wall, and for a moment darkened the pool in which light reflected itself; or birds, flying, made a soft spot flutter slowly across the bedroom floor." - Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
"The efforts of one who is unenthusiastic, weak and immersed in sorrow cannot bring out any good and he comes to grief." - Valmiki NULL
"When you are still plowing fields ahead, make a point of being open-minded, and there will be no murmuring among others. After your life is over, its blessings will flow for a long time, giving contentment to people in their thoughts." - Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
"What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good." - Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
"You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Why, what did she tell you?I don't know, I didn't listen." - Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
"There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man." - Emma Goldman
"Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy." - Eugene Peterson