"Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it……" — Jacque Fresco
"Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. Â There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. Â It's hard to escape your culture."
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Jacque Fresco
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155 Quotes by Jacque Fresco
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much…
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they…
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We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's…
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War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very…
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At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly…
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We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
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Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still…
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To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.
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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who…
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all…
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we…
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of…
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is…
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If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people…
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