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It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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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.
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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
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If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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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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I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
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The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.
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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.
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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.
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It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
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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.
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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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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
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There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
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There is no way you can think outside of your culture.
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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.
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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.
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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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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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