"We talk about civilization as though it's a……" — Jacque Fresco
"We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization."
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Jacque Fresco
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155 Quotes by Jacque Fresco
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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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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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You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
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