274 Quotes by Jacque Fresco

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.

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

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

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they don't demand loyalty, they can't keep their civilization together. So what they do is they teach things that would support an established system. We do not advocate an established system. TVP talks of an emergent system into state of change. So that we always prepare people for the next changes coming ahead. So that people will not cling to the past.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you’re not one of those that will.

The system you’re brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.