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Quotes from Cosmography — Buckminster Fuller

1895–1983 United States

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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

Cosmography (1992)

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Cosmography (1992)

Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

Cosmography (1992)

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Cosmography (1992)

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession — not conscious planning — provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

Cosmography (1992)

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Cosmography (1992)

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.
This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

Cosmography (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Buckminster Fuller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.