It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative. Jacque Fresco More Quotes by Jacque Fresco More Quotes From Jacque Fresco Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. Jacque Fresco customsbehaviorculture The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves. Jacque Fresco limitation The government means industry, if you know what I mean. Jacque Fresco governmentknowsmean We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms. Jacque Fresco debateegoproblem 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. Jacque Fresco plant-lifeoxygenlooks Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart. Jacque Fresco wisersmartwise I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency. Jacque Fresco typeour-societytoday Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples. Jacque Fresco technologydecisionfirsts Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless. Jacque Fresco environmentalconcernsocial The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking Jacque Fresco venuscitiesthinking I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month. Jacque Fresco ku-klux-klanhateorganization 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. Jacque Fresco citiescountrypeople Let's teach our children to be thinkers. Jacque Fresco thinkerteachchildren As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. Jacque Fresco warcivilizationlong It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people. Jacque Fresco jobspeopleworld Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. That would be up to people. Jacque Fresco availabilityvegetablesrunning There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with. Jacque Fresco issuessaid Our problems are technical, not political Jacque Fresco politicalproblem You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background. Jacque Fresco qualitypeopleworld In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons Jacque Fresco governmenthurtmoving
