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People Quotes by Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco imagines a world where Earth's resources belong to everyone. He argues that we must design social conditions that stop scarcity and theft. He also says technology should free people to pursue higher goals, otherwise its power is wasted.

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Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.

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LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

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

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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

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

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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation…

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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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The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

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The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral…

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If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will…

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If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the…

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

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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…

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Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of…

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Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering…

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There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your…

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I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become…

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You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?"…

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You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to…

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You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation -…

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If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all…

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If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is…

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I don't believe in Gods and devils. I think it's man-made stories to try and help people understand where all this came…

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Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other…

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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation…

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Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell…

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In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all…

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War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.…

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Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really…

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The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the…

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It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially…

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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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If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all…

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

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

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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised…

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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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You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it…

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If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose…

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What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth's resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international…

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

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

We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

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

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do…

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

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…

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

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…

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

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,…

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

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…

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the…