Jacque Fresco Quotes
If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?
There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.
So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?
If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.
You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.
When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.
If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.
You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions
The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions.
We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.
The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
