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Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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Brooklyn
New York
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All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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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.
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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.
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There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
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You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
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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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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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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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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.
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You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.
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There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.
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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.
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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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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.
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If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
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We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
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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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