“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.” PeopleCultureNationsDifferencesOrganizationBridgesPentagon Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleKindLanguageConditionsEventsDesignCreatorAccidentsBe GoodBe KindHighwaysExceedProceduresInnovatorsSlipperyConsiderateBe Considerate 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
“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.” PeopleSelfTogetherSocialCitiesBuildingEgoComfortableArchitectSelf CenteredGet Together 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
“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.” PeopleWorldHumansEarthUsedCommonTechnologyResourcesConcernIntelligentHeritageScience And TechnologyIntelligent Life 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
“Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.” PeopleTodayLanguagePrinciplesSubjectsMathematicsCommunicateInterpretationChemistryEngineeringAgriculture Author:Jacque Fresco
“Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they don't demand loyalty, they can't keep their civilization together. So what they do is they teach things that would support an established system. We do not advocate an established system. TVP talks of an emergent system into state of change. So that we always prepare people for the next changes coming ahead. So that people will not cling to the past.” PeopleIfsTryingStatesTogetherPastNextTeachSupportCivilizationDemandLoyaltySocialismCommunismEnterpriseConformFree EnterpriseChanges Coming Author:Jacque Fresco
“Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of people.... I'm not that concerned with my son. I'm more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.” PeopleLooksMeanCausesTermSonBrotherMembersConcernedMadMajorityPrioritiesMy SonBrothers And Sisters Author:Jacque Fresco
“The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.” PeopleLawResultsAcceptingMassOriginalsLimitation 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.” PeopleWorldLongTodayMethodMajorityInsaneExposedWorld TodayObsoleteEvaluation Author:Jacque Fresco
“There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.” PeopleHumansCultureBad People Author:Jacque Fresco
