Jacque Fresco Quotes

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• When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

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  Education, Price Tag, Limits

  Jacque Fresco (2007). “Designing the Future”, p.71, Osmora Inc.

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

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  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

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  Freedom, Acceptance, Games

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• I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

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  Want, Trust Me, I Want You

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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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  Mean, Thinking, World

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• If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

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  If You Love Someone, Want, Helping

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• We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

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  Success, Music, Running

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• The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

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  War, Intelligent, Civilization

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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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  Inspirational, Children, Reflection

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• Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

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  Technology, Today, Debt

  "Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World" edited by Arthur B. Shostak, M.E. Sharpe, (p. 198), February 7, 2003.

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• It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.

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  Life, Hurt, Disappointment

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• We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.

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  Health, Cities, Political

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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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  Knowing, People, Together

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• No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

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  Hate, Learning, Hatred

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• The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

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  Children, Intelligent, Culture

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

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  People, Needs

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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 best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

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  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better

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  School, Stupid People, Men

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• 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 integral part of the design.

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  Integrity, Fighting, Equality

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

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  Hope, Atheist, Good Life

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• Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

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  Science, Opinion, Study

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

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  Love Is, People, Giving

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

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  Greek, Problem, Polish

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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 drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

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  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.

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  Brain, Earth, Care

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