Top 100 Jacque Fresco Quotes
#1. Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
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#2. If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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#4. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
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#5. 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.
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#6. If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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#7. I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
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#11. As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
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#12. We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
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#13. 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
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#14. 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.
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#15. There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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#16. Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.
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#17. The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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#18. 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?
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#19. 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.
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#20. We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
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#21. If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.
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#22. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
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#23. We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.
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#24. We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
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#26. 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.
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#27. What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.' You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.
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#28. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
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#31. This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.
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#32. You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
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#33. You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.
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#34. If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
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#35. Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.
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#36. Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.
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#37. We are all an integral part of the chain of life.
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#38. In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.
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#39. Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.
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#40. During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?
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#41. All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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#42. We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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#43. Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.
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#44. I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.
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#45. The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.
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#46. It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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#47. When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species
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#48. 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.
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#49. It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
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#50. People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.
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#51. The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It's first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.
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#54. The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society ...
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#55. Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
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#56. Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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#57. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
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#58. 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?
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#59. War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It's going to take the redesign of our culture and values.
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#60. 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.
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#61. And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving "love", your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable ...
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#62. We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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#66. If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.
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#69. Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
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#70. 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.
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#71. LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.
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#72. Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.
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#73. We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.
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#74. 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.
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#75. I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
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#76. THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA
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#77. Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
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#78. It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
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#79. All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.
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#80. Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
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#81. You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.
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#82. There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.
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#83. The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator's and elected officials' ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.
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#84. Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture.
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#85. If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
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#86. Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
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#88. I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
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#89. I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
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#90. There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.
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#91. To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.
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#92. You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work ... So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.
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#93. There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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#96. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
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#97. Our main problem is a lack of understanding of what it means to be human and that we are not separate from nature.
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#98. Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.
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#99. You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.
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#100. If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.
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