Jacque Fresco Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are all victims of culture.

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  Culture, Victim

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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 be meaningless.

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  Technology, People, Achievement

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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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• In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

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  Responsibility, Challenges, Earth

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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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• Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

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  Complaining, Alternatives, Offers

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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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  War, Army, People

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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 from. They said 'Where did the world come from if there's no God', 'Where did life come from'. Just say 'I don't know'. Don't say some guy made a man and a woman. You have no business doing that, you know what I mean? And then He got mad and flooded the whole world; told Noah to build an arc. These are terrible stories.

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  Business, Believe, Mean

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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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• So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?

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  Long, Lasts, Trouble

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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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• 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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• Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.

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  Real, Love You, Player

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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 appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

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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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• People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.

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  Jealousy, War, Anger

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