System Quotes

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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 control. So, the… — Jacque Fresco
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the… — Jacque Fresco
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… — Jacque Fresco
It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways. — Jacque Fresco
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. Â In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war. — Jacque Fresco
Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Â Almost every thing we do… — Jacque Fresco
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. Â I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and… — Jacque Fresco
The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system. — Jacque Fresco
We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages. — Jacque Fresco
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,… — Jacque Fresco
You can't exceed the system with language. Â You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. Â You can't exceed… — Jacque Fresco
In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so… — Jacque Fresco
Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an… — Jacque Fresco
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they… — Jacque Fresco
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue â€˜ethnicâ€™ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… — Philip Gourevitch
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests… — Leonid Brezhnev
Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is… — Max Wertheimer
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the… — Michel Houellebecq
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and… — Galen
But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported… — David Frum

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