Top 100 Jacque Fresco Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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#3. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
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#4. 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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#5. The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society ...
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#6. Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.
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#7. 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.
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#8. There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there ... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.
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#9. 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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#10. If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity's relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.
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#15. 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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#16. War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.
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#17. 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.
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#18. It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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#19. 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.
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#20. The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.
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#21. I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.
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#22. 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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#23. We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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#24. All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.
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#31. 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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#32. We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.
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#33. LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.
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#34. 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.
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#35. When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
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#41. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?
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#48. 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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#49. The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
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#53. As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#57. The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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#58. Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.
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#59. 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.
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#60. There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.
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#74. If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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#75. The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
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#76. Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
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#77. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
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#78. We are all an integral part of the chain of life.
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#79. Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of people ... I'm not that concerned with my son. I'm more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.
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#80. Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.
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#81. 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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#82. There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS.
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#83. If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#93. We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
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#94. We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.
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#95. It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
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#96. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
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#97. When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
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#98. 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.
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#99. If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.
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#100. 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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