Quotes from Jacque Fresco

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

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.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

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.

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.

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

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.