“If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.” PeopleIfsWorldEndsProblemEarthWishSocialCommonResourcesInternationalHeritageOngoingSocial Problems Author:Jacque Fresco
“I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayWellsCoursesNamesCrazyUpsetHospitals Author:Jacque Fresco
“If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.” IfsFacesSocialBreakEconomicConcernEnvironmentalBreaking DownInvolvingModification Author:Jacque Fresco
“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?” IfsThinkingWorldRealBornSeeingSocietyNormalNormalityFuturistDictating Author:Jacque Fresco
“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.” IfsWantGivenHalfSupportBuildingMaterialsProjectsEvidenceResourcesMethodAvailableMilesStatisticsDictatorshipScientific Evidence Author:Jacque Fresco
“We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers” IfsMindHardSimpleAnswersStudyHard WorkFindingsWork Out Author:Jacque Fresco
“If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.” PeopleIfsBigsTogetherNationsLevelsShareResourcesSustainabilityCollapse Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.” IfsWholeAbleTogetherFormInsanityConventionalDon't Change Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEarthCan DoPerfectHarmonyNotionHumanistWarmthUtopianPerfect Society Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will” IfsThinkingWorldMeanChanging The WorldCan't Change Author:Jacque Fresco
“The government means industry, if you know what I mean.” IfsKnowsMeanGovernmentIndustry Author:Jacque Fresco
“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” IfsMenWorldWantGivingTryingMadeShowsSchoolBrainApproachCapitalismIntellectSocialismAssGet UpCommunismChanging The WorldFascismFree MarketUpbringingStupid PeopleAway From YouInsufficientCerebralFuturistHeal The WorldEducated Fools Author:Jacque Fresco
“What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and 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.” IfsWantKindSaidImportantBodyBrainMonthsCompetitionYour BodyEnterpriseOrgansLiverFree Enterprise Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.” IfsKnowsWorldWantMeanChildrenI CanUseRunningAbleCultureNormalDrawsOrdinaryOur ChildrenTrainRelateFasterYour ChildrenBetter Than YouMessed UpCorrelation Author:Jacque Fresco
“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” IfsWantWritingBelieveHumansMeanChildrenPersonsTwoDifferentProblemHomeRunningTodaySuccessCultureTermHuman BeingsMoneyMusicSuccessfulCarCollegePaintingSellsAveragePursueBeing SuccessfulLots Of MoneySuccess In LifeEarningEmphasisIf You BelieveAverage PersonWriting PoetryWriting MusicSuccess Is Not MeasuredCollege SuccessYourself Short Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenWarProblemSocietyTypeIntelligentKillingSolveAnti WarProblem SolvingRaising ChildrenUpbringingFree SocietyTeaching ChildrenProblems And SolutionsKilling Each OtherFuturistThere Is Always A Way Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.” IfsThinkingNeedsWarCountryWould BeCausesHellDemocracyResourcesProfitOilNo War Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingIdeasReadingWishLosesTeachThreatSeparationConquerDividesQuestioningUniformsRulingGoverningMonetaryDividingUniformityMonetary SystemFuturistDivide And Conquer Author:Jacque Fresco
“When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. I told you some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eyesight than others. I don't know what that means. I think they're trying to talk about equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. If you don't have the money to go to college, the word 'equal opportunities' mean nothing” IfsThinkingKnowsMenTryingMeanOpportunityCollegeEqualHeavyBotherEqual OpportunityEyesight Author:Jacque Fresco
“In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification. These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.” PeopleIfsMenSelfHelpingLightValuesIndividualProcessWaterCenturyEvery ManEnginesVehicleElectricPrimitiveIncentivesReservoirsPurificationValue SystemsElectric LightSingle People Author:Jacque Fresco
“We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.” IfsMenWantSelfTodayTeachingHonorMembersRewardsPrivilegeBoatOur SocietyGet AwayMedalWisestWisest ManSelf CenterednessCenterednessSociety Today Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsEnoughCareEarthEasyBrainMaterialsTake CareSubstitutesShortage Author:Jacque Fresco
“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 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” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayLongSaidUseTodayLanguageLinesSubjectsArgumentMethodMajorityMathInsaneBridgesInterpretationExposedEngineersWorld TodayObsoleteEvaluationTransmissionDams Author:Jacque Fresco
“I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.” PeopleIfsDifferentReasonValuesHateLanguageWhiteHalfMonthsCitizensOrganizationIf I CouldInterpretationCustomsCouncilApplauseForeignersMiamiKu Klux KlanDifferent LanguagesDifferent InterpretationsDifferent Values Author:Jacque Fresco
“In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons” PeopleIfsWantDoeGovernmentMovingHurtDesignProductsProgramMachinesPrisonProductionsLifestyleProgrammingOur SocietyAgricultureFarming Author:Jacque Fresco
“If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they want to live out in the country, with their own projects. We’ll put up the buildings for them, design the buildings for them, design the food production systems for them – if they want us to. But we don’t control them.” PeopleIfsWantCountryCitiesGroupsDesignBuildingProjectsProductionsLifestyleWant UAmishFood Production Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWorldTryingBelieveMeanMadeSaidWholeHelpingStoriesGuyBusinessTerribleDevilMadDon't BelieveWhole WorldBelieve In GodThey SaidArcs Author:Jacque Fresco
“I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, “What happened then, daddy?” I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out. I'm too tired to read. I'll read to you tomorrow.” So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don't teach children how to read. Don't teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they're working ass-backwards.” IfsWantNeedsGivingChildrenSaidBookReasonMotivationalKidsSchoolUsedNightReadingInterestingTeachLearningHappenedTomorrowMathematicsTiredAssReading BooksBackwardsDaddyMost InterestingFather SonTeaching ChildrenBeing A FatherChildren LearningFatheringReading For KidsEffective TeacherJoy Of Learning Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsWaterMillionsWifeLandGoldDollarsFishesIslandsDiamondMillion DollarsGold And Diamonds Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsWould BeBeautifulValuesCultureGirlTermTroubleStructureIslandsFrameworkBeautiful GirlArtificiality Author:Jacque Fresco
“If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few.” PeopleIfsWantHumansWarEndsUseProblemTodayHuman BeingsPovertyTechnologyEnvironmentAchieveCrimeConcernedToolsIntelligentFellowsHungerDisputesSelectScience And TechnologyWar CrimesTerritorialNew DirectionsUses Of Science Author:Jacque Fresco
“You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem.” IfsKnowsWorldKindPersonsSelfProblemAbilityTalkingAreasSolveSelf ConfidenceChemicalsNew WorldAgricultureCompetenceNot TalkingElectricalParticipatingAircraftRedesign Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsHumansLawValuesHateCultureNatureBornNaturalLearningEnvironmentSubjectsEffectsBehaviorHatredPrejudiceEnvironmentalGreedPatternsRepeatsBigotryPhenomenonCustomsHuman BehaviorAlteredSimilarityNatural PhenomenaLearned BehaviorBehavior Patterns Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsNeedsCareWantedMoneyPayConditionsCrimeDrugBehaviorBasesSellsCaringCriminalsSellingMaking MoneyGamblingGovernorsBehaviourSenatorsProstitutionNo MoneyGet MoneySelling OutAbhorrentFuturistCrimes And Misdemeanors Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsKnowsSaidWarEndsSpiritualHumanityPovertyProjectsBrotherhoodTranslationsVenus Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindWarEndsEnoughCarePovertyGroupsCrimeAdvantageRewardsMedicalEducatedTaxationIncentivesBeggingElitismMedical Care Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsWayReasonSimpleTeachReactionsBehaveReasoningWheelsSimple ThingsKites Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsNeedsTreeFrontsGrewSellsAccessApplesOrangePolicemenApple TreesOrange Trees Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsBelieveLongRunningEarthValuesHurtSpeciesRelatedRealisticLong Runs Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentCountryEnoughRunningTodayCertainDecisionTechnologyWorryTreeMaterialsGrewResourcesSellsDecision MakingWhat IfSubstitutesOrangeLabsShortageScarcityAvailabilityOrange Trees Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsWantWould BeRunningNaturalDecidedDetermineDuesDisasterMeatWorking ItVegetarianVegetablesFloodAvailabilityNatural DisasterVegetation Author:Jacque Fresco
“Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.” PeopleIfsGovernmentSufferingSocialLosesArmyPoliceIntellectManageRelatedFascismSocial ChangeNew Directions Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsProblemConditionsDesignEthicsAvailableStealingDecencyScarcity Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMeanReasonValuesLosesApproachLogicAppealsReason And Logic Author:Jacque Fresco
“If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.” PeopleIfsHumansDoeTechnologyHigherAchievementPursuitAspirationMeaningless Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsKnowsEndsEarthTechnologyResourcesManageParadiseFuturistParadise On Earth Author:Jacque Fresco
“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?” IfsWellsLongLastsAsksTroublePartnersReplica Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansWarUsedSufferingPovertyEconomyEnvironmentCrimeBehaviorResourcesConcernConcernedBasesMethodRaisedEnvironmentalDisappearZeroApplicationProbabilityAlteredDeprivationScientific MethodHuman Suffering Author:Jacque Fresco
“Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.” PeopleIfsDoeHas BeensImportantCertainSocialNaturalAcceptingSurvivalResourcesMediumsAgreementConventionsScarceNatural ResourcesScarce Resources Author:Jacque Fresco
