"If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10……" — 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, no fish, you have nothing. Â Money is a 'nothing' thing."
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Jacque Fresco
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155 Quotes by Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco has 155 quotes on this site.
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much…
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they…
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We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's…
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War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very…
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At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly…
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We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
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Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still…
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To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.
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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who…
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African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in…
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We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and…
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an…
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Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't…
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the…
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental…
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
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