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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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The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.
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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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LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.
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I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.
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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.
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.
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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
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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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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.
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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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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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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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The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
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