"All people are brought up by cultures and every culture says 'You live in the greatest country in the world', 'I'm American and proud of it', 'I'm Canadian and I'm proud About transition: I am sorry to tell you this, guys, but it is not going to be easy." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 002
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"Crime is based upon need - making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  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 generates abberant behavior, you don't have abberant behavior." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 004
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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 better than what we’ve got.  I’m no utopian - I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony.  I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 009
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"I never said that it [socialism] was not a good transition tool.  It's not the best.  It's not updated.  Socialism was great when it was designed, but today we have much better systems; much more effective to enhance the lives of people in a much faster way than the old time socialism.  Socialism was concerned with the working class; we're concerned with knowledge, and we're concerned with surpassing the need for work.  In other words, we think machines could replace jobs that are monotonous and boring or dangerous.  That people think in terms of work to earn a living.  In the future, you don't need to think in terms of work; You'll be provided for and you can study anything you want to study at school." - Jacque Fresco

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"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.  Money is a 'nothing' thing." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 013
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"In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future.  I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology.  This does not call for scientists to manage society.  What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 014
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"Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime.  They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'.  Well, that doesn't do anything." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 017
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"Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 021
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"Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values.  Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system.  What do we mean by values?  Our values are what we want out of life.  No one is born with a set of values.  Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 024
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"Politics is an obsolete way of doing things.  Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 025
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"The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane; unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.  Our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it.  Can there be such a language?  There already is.  When engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation.  They use math - they use descriptive systems.  If I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it, you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines.  The language has to have meaning." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 031
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"The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 032
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"The original intent of laws is to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 035
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"The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 037
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"The Venus Project does everything that religion talks about.  It builds the brotherhood of man.  It doesn't kill, there's no wars.  Don't forget, the bible says "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  It says "thou shalt not kill."  The Venus Project is all about that, whereas the verbal systems of religion talk about and around the subject but they don't tell us how to do it or how to get from here to there.  They really don't know how.  It isn't that they don't want to, they don't know how." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 038
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"The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity.  If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 040
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"The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today, but it is not up to me.  It depends on what others do to help bring it about." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 039
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"The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 041
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"The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 042
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"There is no such thing as beauty.  If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture.  If you're brought up in an island where people have pointed heads, that would be 'beautiful' in your terms.  All these mythological structures is what gets us into trouble; the artificiality of our values that get us into trouble." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 045
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"We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 047
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"We are all victims of culture." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 048
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"We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 051
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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." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 055
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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 ongoing... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are only in the early stages of civilization." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 056
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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." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 058
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"What kind of competition is there in your body?  Suppose your brain said, "I'm the most important organ", then the liver said, "I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system."  You would rot away in a month if every organ of your body were out for itself." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 060
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"What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and the end of begging for medical care.  Everyone will be cared for and educated.  There will be no taxation, and no advantage group.  No technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism.  If that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 061
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"Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection.  We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 062
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"Whatever happens in this society is real, what you think should happen is unreal.  So most people are hurt by their expectations, not the real world.  Whatever happens in the real world is real.  What you think should have happened is fantasy." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 063
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"Whenever you make a law, "Thou Shalt Not Kill"; some jackass thinks that by making a law, you can control human behavior. Conditions that exist control human behavior, not the laws." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 065
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"You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 067
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"You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple.  The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 068
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"You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around.  Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately.  Take plant life away, we die.  And without the sun, all the plants die.  So we are connected." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 070
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"You really don't want a job.  What you want is access to those things you'd like to have." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 071
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"There is no ideal discipline that you can train someone in and say, "That's it, forever"." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 073
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"There's no debates; there is dialogue.  Debate is out to win.  We aren't out to win; we are out to accomplish." - Jacque Fresco on the new cities

QUOTE#: 074
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"In the bible, it says "Thou shall not kill".  It doesn't say you can kill Wednesdays and Thursdays.  It says "Thou shall not kill". - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 077
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"Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing.  That's why we don't understand what's happening." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 076
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"Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately.  There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way.  It's hard to escape your culture." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 080
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"The more you know about it, the more you add to it, the more relevant your decisions.  When people get in arguments, it means they not talking about anything real.  They are talking about their opinions." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 081
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"There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 083
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"If you think you can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 085
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"Sane - meaning the most operant behavior for a given set of circumstances." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 099
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"Do away with all of the words that have no correlation with the real world. These words don't make it possible to understand this proposal. The Venus Project means to take children and educate them in term of nature; how nature works, how food grows, how humans depend on food, and how humans had invented different types of societies with the best knowledge they had at the time, which was wholly inadaquate." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 104
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"I think people want to question things and don't [want to] follow any leader.  Question everything you've learned, and check it out against scientific facts.  Don't forget - even a fact is an agreement among people and so, the fact may not be accurate in some instances.  It's the best method we know of." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 106
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"If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 107
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"Nuclear weapons can't solve any problems.  They can only reduce the Earth's capacity of survive." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 110
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"Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 109
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"Opinions are very dangerous because they aren't based in scientific studies.  When you ask a scientist whether he has some information along a certain area, he usually refers to some physical referent.  The average person, who is not involved in the scientific method, usually does not." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 111
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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  

QUOTE#: 005
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"Earth is abundant with plentiful resources.  Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival." - Jacque Fresco  

QUOTE#: 006
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"If Goodrich buys a tire from me that last's twenty years against two years, why should they manufacture it?  It puts them out of business.  If a drug company finds out that celery juice lowers blood pressure and if they tell it to people, they can't sell their drugs.  They get three bucks for a pill. Why should they tell you to use celery juice?  The free enterprise, monetary system is corrupt as hell because of the nature of your business.  That's why banks and all other financial institutions are bound to be corrupt.  And senators depend on donations to get elected.  And companies do the donating.  So what can you expect?  War is big business.  They sell weapons." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 011
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"If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges.  Do you understand that?  So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources.  If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials.  People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 012
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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." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 015
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"It's not easy to grasp this system because we're subjects and we're immersed in an environment.  No Chinese baby was ever born speaking Chinese.  You can't inherit acquired characteristics.  In other words, prejudice, racism, dialect, facial expressions, attitudes about marriage and children are all part of your environmental indoctrination.  I don't say it's the same for people, their environments vary so they come out somewhat different but the differences are not due to individuality.  They're due to the environmental impressions that you pick up." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 016
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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." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 023
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"Politics was good a hundred years ago.  Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior.  They are not students of agriculture, oceanography, they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.  So, they say things that people like to hear, and that gets them elected.  Now scientists, on the other hand, are not concerned with public approval.  Even if everybody on earth believed the earth was flat, they would say, 'You're wrong.  This is the evidence we have to support the fact that the earth is round'.  They don't say, "it's a little round and a little flat." - that's politicians." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 026
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"The whole basis of social operation today is a profit system.  As long as you have a profit system, all your universities are tuned to the monetary system. The universities are not tuned to human betterment.  They are not tuned to the well being of society.  The universities are supported by the food industry, by wealthy corporations, and if you threaten them at the university level, that support will be withdrawn.  You will not be permitted to talk against the mass productive systems of the present day economy.  If you speak against those systems at a university, they would loose their support." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 044
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"War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements.  There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.  The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment.  Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 046
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"Whatever I decide will not work.  It's what people want that will work.  So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else.  What determines that is the availability of food.  If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables.  I have no control over that.  That would be up to people." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 064
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"[A Resource-Based Economy] is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern.  If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero.  The probability of human suffering disappears.  Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis.  I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 072
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"A Resource-Based Economy is nothing like any other system.  They say "It's a form of communism."  No, it's not!  Communism has warships, airplanes, bombers, poison gas, nerve gas... and all the things we have.  It's nothing like any other '...ism'.  It's different than any culture ever tried before." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 082
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"Unfortunately, money doesn't represent things in existence. If you set a value on every tree, every inch of arable land, all the water, and you printed money proportionate to the resources so that the money represents resources, then it can have meaning. But today, that is not accomplished. Although they may tell you that demand will really bring about these things. No, demand doesn't bring about the things. Available resources do. If money doesn't represent available resources, it has no basis for social management." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 089
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"When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually.  Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 090
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"[Politicians keep the system going] by keeping information away from people. If people had [relevant] information, they would never participate in politics, at all!" - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 096
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"Remember - for a politician get elected, they have to appeal to normal values.  They can't be elected if they stray off the normal methods of evaluation.  If a politician began to talk scientifically, he would never be elected!" - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 098
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"The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations being superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehaviour." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 101
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"As long we know our limitations, we know what we can do.  There is no place for ego in that kind of society.  There's a place for exchange of information and understanding the nature of the physical world." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 112
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"The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work.  Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe…  They have no knowledge in that area.  Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 113
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"Man is so stupid today that he's making nuclear weapons and improving them so that they're a thousand times more destructive than the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima.  If they continue in that direction, it will mean the end of the human race as we know it.  Human beings are not wise enough yet to use their innovative technology." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 115
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"Our decisions are based on the carrying capacity of the environment, not on Fresco or 'the leaders of the organization'. The direction is prescribed by the natural resources we have. We must live in accordance with the carrying capacity of the Earth resources. If we violate that, we are going to have trouble; we can't violate natural phenomena. Man-made systems are no good. They are just based upon feeling tone and nothing real. So man-made system always fail." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 121
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"What makes people greedy?  What makes people self-centered?  What makes criminal behavior?  We want to eradicate those conditions so that people no longer act the way they do." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 122
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"If boys and girls swim nude when they are very young, you won't have any peeping toms.  You can't sell a picture of a nude girl if children are brought up that way." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 123
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"Doctors without borders, volunteering for free and taking time out of their paying jobs. It's not just for money. People work more so when they do things they believe in, they have much more fulfillment." ~ Roxanne Meadows

QUOTE#: 125
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"If you don't participate or if you don't have a job today, you can be kicked out of your house, you can end up in the streets, you don't get medical care (in the United States anyway).  In an RBE, it doesn't make any difference if you don't participate.  Hopefully, you are encouraged to learn new things so that you can participate so you improve the lives of everyone.  But you have access to everything everybody else has, whether they participate or not."  ~ Roxanne Meadows

QUOTE#: 126
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"Today we have something that's not a planned economy, and it's total chaos.  Most of the population does not have goods and services."  ~ Roxanne Meadows

QUOTE#: 129
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"You'll have people that get their 'kicks' out of helping people, instead of getting their 'kicks' out of beating people." - Roxanne Meadows on the new cities

QUOTE#: 131
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"This has nothing to do with those who want to form an elite 'world order' with themselves and large corporations in control and the rest of the world subservient to them.  On the contrary, a global Resource-Based Economy enables all people to reach their highest potential, where they can thrive and grow in a society that works in their behalf; a society that protects and preserves the environment, as well.  One that understands that we are part of nature, not separate from it." - Roxanne Meadows

QUOTE#: 133
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"In this highly technical society, decisions are based on direct environmental human and industrial feedback.  You can think of this as electrical sensors throughout the entire environment - from cities, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, transportation networks... all over the globe gathering data for more appropriate decisions.  The decisions are based on the needs of society, rather than corporate or private interests." - Roxanne Meadows

QUOTE#: 134
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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." - Jacque Fresco  

QUOTE#: 003
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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." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 008
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"Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience.  During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products.  I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging.  This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 018
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"Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 019
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"Population control is dependent upon education.  We feel, an educated population needs no control." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 027
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"The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment.  That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 028
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"The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become because there's no such thing as justice. There is whatever there is out there. That's it... The point is we have to redesign the environment that produces aberrant behavior. That's the problem. Not putting a person in jail.  That's why judges, lawyers, 'freedom of choice': such concepts are dangerous because it gives you mis-information that the person is 'bad', or that person is a 'serial killer'. Serial killers are made, just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun. They become killing machines, but nobody looks at them as murderers or assassins because that's 'natural'.  So we blame people. We say, 'Well this guy was a Nazi. He tortured Jews.' No, he was brought up to torture Jews." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 033
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"The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose, without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 036
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"We're not interested in an established culture - we're interested in an emerging culture.  It's not about creating a utopia, but about creating a culture and economy the best way that we know how at this point." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 057
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"We're such an abominable, sick society that we won't make the history books.  They'll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations using force and violence.  You'll get history talked about as corrupt behavior all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world.  That's when all the nations work together; world unification, working toward common good for all human beings and without anyone being subservient to anyone else.  Without social stratification, whether it be technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism; eradicated from the face of the Earth.  The "state" does nothing because there is no "state".  The system we advocate, a resource-based global economy, is not perfect, it's just a lot better than what we have." - Jacque Fresco 

QUOTE#: 059
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"Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that, instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 066
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"You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems.  In scarcity, people will tend to steal.  If you make things available, people tend not to steal." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 069
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"Instead of a pentagon, you have a lot of people that are trained in bridging the difference between nations.  The pentagon would serve as an intermediate organization to bridge the difference between cultures." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 075
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" 'See if we can see things in my way' - that is an impossible conversation or, 'you shouldn't have done that'. It's better to say what you can do to make it work. The purpose of language is not to communicate, is to control the behavior of other people. Most language is noise." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 079
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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." - Jacque Fresco

QUOTE#: 084
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"Technicians do not tell you what to do or how to live.  They merely carry out the functions of designing elevators, transportation units, bridges, housing systems...  They do not tell people what to do, what to think, or how to live.  That's a mistake that most people make.  They think that a resource-based economy has technicians that also tell you what lifestyle to use.  No. they don't!  The resources determine that.  All that the technicians do is build a system that can utilize those resources for the benefit of all the people involved." - Jacque Fresco

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"You only bridge the difference through areas you have in common, not the differences." - J Fresco

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"You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator." - Jacque Fresco

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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." - J. Fresco

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"I don't like Jewish conditioning, but I don't like Catholic conditioning, I don't like Presbyterian conditioning, and I don't like American conditioning; so it's the 'conditioning' that's the problem." - Jacque Fresco

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"There is no aberrant behavior if your schools are operated in accordance with scientific education.  When children don't learn how to answer questions, rather than speculate and argue and want to get in a fight, there is something wrong with your culture.  When your culture advocates wrestling matches, prize fights, etc., there is something wrong with your culture.  When they spend most of the money on military expenditures, there's something wrong with your culture.  And that's politics." - Jacque Fresco

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"Scientists that don't question the social system are not scientists to me." - Jacque Fresco

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"The Wright Brothers never got a hearing - neither did Luis Pasteur.  He was not a doctor; he was a chemist.  All new ideas comes from the outside" - Jacque Fresco

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"Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego.  [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people.  The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another." - Jacque Fresco

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"You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work… So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'." - Jacque Fresco

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"All social systems tend to perpetuate themselves.  The values superimposed on us are to support the culture we are in. If nations didn’t do that, they couldn’t get people to fight their wars or defend their values.  Patriotism is used in this same way." ~ Roxanne Meadows

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"There's no way of making this system just.  We have to make a system that assures human rights.  When everybody has free access to good and services, you don't have to fight for women's rights or black rights; it's automatic in a society that's set up that way." ~ Roxanne Meadows

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"There's no way of making this system just.  We have to make a system that assures human rights.  When everybody has free access to goods and services you don't have to fight for women's rights or black rights.  It's an automatic in a society that's set up that way." - Roxanne Meadows

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"One of the main aspects of The Venus Project is to eliminate scarcity; this is where the technology comes into play because if we set up a Resource-Based Economy and some things are scarce, it won’t work.  If you set up a Resource-Based Economy in a society that has no resources, it won’t work.  Today, with our technology we can make things available.  We can eliminate scarcity; we can create an abundance.  As long as we can create that abundance, that will eliminate greed and selfishness, and a lot of crime and a lot of aberrant behavior." - Roxanne Meadows

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"Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future.  For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples." - Jacque Fresco 

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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." - Jacque Fresco

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"We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it.  I am a futurist.  I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently." - Jacque Fresco

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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." - Jacque Fresco

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"Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse." - Jacque Fresco

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"All things change.  The automobiles change every year.  [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition.  All things in the scientific world change.  But politicians do not change.  They carry old values and they don't even know it." - Jacque Fresco

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"Scientists never tell you that 'this is the strongest material in the world!'  They put it in a machine, twist it, pull it, compress it, and they give you a report of the characteristics of that metal and what it is made of." - Jacque Fresco

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"To me, all of the marvels of science and technology - all of the electronics and mechanical wonders - are just so many millions of tons of junk, unless it enhances the lives of men." - Jacque Fresco

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"When science and technology is unleashed into the social system directly to improve peoples lives without restrictions of money, the marketplace or patents, we could then begin to know what it really means to be human." - Roxanne Meadows

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" 'It will work itself out' is like hoping a bridge will form over water, without designing it." - Jacque Fresco

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"About transition: I am sorry to tell you this, guys, but it is not going to be easy." - Jacque Fresco 

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"Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth." - Jacque Fresco

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"People make assumptions that the wealthy stay in power.  They do not.  When systems break down, banks fail, industry fails.  They shut the doors that say NO HELP WANTED."  You can't even sell your production plant if a newer system comes up.  So, you can't hang on to the old system, even though you have a lot of money today.  When the banks fail, you lose your money.  When people aren't buying goods and services, you lose your industrial plant.  You don't have to worry about people giving up anything." - Jacque Fresco

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"The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs, but will continue to evolve a set of values unique to its own time. The very notion of Utopia" is static. The paths that we choose will ultimately determine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth." - Jacque Fresco

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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." - Jacque Fresco

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"The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition." - Jacque Fresco

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"The way we use technology is completely wasteful.  We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools, etc..  In the future, we will make the best of all equipment and make it available to everyone." - Jacque Fresco

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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." - Jacque Fresco

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"We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mold." - Jacque Fresco

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"We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate.  In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms." - Jacque Fresco 

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"We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else." - Jacque Fresco

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"Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples." - Jacque Fresco

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"As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation.  He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test.  He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience.  What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life." - Jacque Fresco

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"If all the cities in the world join together and they produce a surplus in food, we will store that surplus, hermetically sealed, in the north and south polar regions.  So, in case there's a flood or need anywhere, we can supply it immediately." - Jacque Fresco

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"In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded." - Jacque Fresco

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