--- title: "2 Availability Quotes By Jacque Fresco" description: "2 Availability quotes by Jacque Fresco. Plus more from Jacque Fresco and more Availability sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/jacque-fresco-1644_availability_whatever-i-decide-will-not-work-it-s-wha_1168960.png" --- > [Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/whatever-i-decide-will-not-work-it-s-what-people-want-that-will-work/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/jacque-fresco-1644_availability_whatever-i-decide-will-not-work-it-s-wha_1168960.png) > [If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. If we have a shortage of any kind of resource,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/if-orange-trees-grew-all-over-the-country-you-couldn-t-sell-oranges/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/jacque-fresco-1644_availability_if-orange-trees-grew-all-over-the-countr_2475655.jpg) ## Other authors on Availability ## More by Jacque Fresco > [Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/our-times-demand-the-declaration-of-the-world-s-resources-as-the/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [When you think, you think in terms of your culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/when-you-think-you-think-in-terms-of-your-culture/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/we-will-never-know-what-anyone-is-really-like-until-everyone-has/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/as-long-as-there-are-prisons-police-armies-navies-we-are-not/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/perhaps-the-most-significant-thing-a-person-can-know-about-himself-is/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/man-in-the-collective-sense-is-the-hero-of-science-man-in-the/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/politics-is-an-obsolete-way-of-doing-things-although-it-was-good-a/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/much-of-a-behavior-acceptable-today-would-be-socially-offensive-in-a/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [We must get away from this limited \*I did this and I did that\* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/we-must-get-away-from-this-limited-i-did-this-and-i-did-that-and-the/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/there-are-no-negro-problems-or-polish-problems-or-jewish-problems-or/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/if-you-re-shipwrecked-on-an-island-with-10-million-dollars-and-your/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/as-long-as-superstition-and-ignorance-prevail-humanity-will-fall/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/lack-of-education-turns-soldiers-into-killing-machines/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/learning-to-be-flexible-in-values-takes-a-very-long-time-of-course-i/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) > [We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/we-are-approaching-a-time-when-human-intelligence-alone-will-be/) [Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/availability/jacque-fresco/#itemlist", "name": "2 Availability Quotes By Jacque Fresco", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. 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