Jacque Fresco Quotes

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Our problems are technical, not political

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

All the world's people should share all the world's resources.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.