Quotes from Jacque Fresco

Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

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.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

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.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

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.

The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.