Jacque Fresco Quotes

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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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Freedom, Acceptance, Games

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• If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Thinking, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

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  Real, Thinking, Society

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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  War, Civilization, Long

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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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• 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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• We are all victims of culture.

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  Culture, Victim

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• The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.

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  Responsibility, Suffering, Majority

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

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  Trying, Alternatives, Looks

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• Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. ...They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he's an architect. In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody

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  Hurt, War, Nice

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