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. Jacque Fresco More Quotes by Jacque Fresco More Quotes From Jacque Fresco We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington. Jacque Fresco enough brain world I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say. Jacque Fresco i-want-you trust-me want 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. Jacque Fresco scarcity design people 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. Jacque Fresco able together insanity The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be. Jacque Fresco intelligent culture children 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. Jacque Fresco zero war people In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology. This does not call for scientists to manage society. What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment. Jacque Fresco technology intelligent doe It's hard in a monetary system to trust people. Jacque Fresco trust money people War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations. Jacque Fresco nations differences war It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world. Jacque Fresco different wish inspirational Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines. Jacque Fresco machines killing soldier We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in. Jacque Fresco kind want world When you think, you think in terms of your culture. Jacque Fresco term culture thinking We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth. Jacque Fresco space earth together 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. Jacque Fresco brother mean son Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement. Jacque Fresco offensive would-be today 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. Jacque Fresco heritage wish people 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. Jacque Fresco intelligent goal dream Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices. Jacque Fresco individual-choice mean people Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. Jacque Fresco customs behavior culture
