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Jacque Fresco (March 13, 1916 – May 18, 2017) was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design.

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The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.

Earth, Given, Information, Population, Resources, Teaching

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

People, Evil, Support, System, Conditions

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

Achievement, Higher, People, Pursuit, Technology

I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, “What happened then, daddy?” I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out. I'm too tired to read. I'll read to you tomorrow. ” So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don't teach children how to read. Don't teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they're working ass-backwards.

Book, Children, Learn, Motivational, School

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

Evaluation, Insane, Long, Methods, People, Today

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.

Availability, Consume, Determines, Running, Vegetables

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

Depends, Help, Helping, Today, Venus

When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species

Development, Evolution, Further, Possibility, Technology

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

Chain, Chains, Integral, Life, Part

You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.

Cities, Drawing, People, Whole, Take

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

Culture, Day, Film, Horror, Make

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

Culture, Think, Thinking, Way

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Atheist, Good, Good Life, Hope, Hoping, Make

What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system. ' You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.

Competition, Brain, Important, Kind, Said

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

Cities, Design, Everything, Frontiers, Perfect

Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.

Army, Government, People, Come, Existing, Manage

You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

Change, Frustration, Morning, People, Time

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.

Dream, Goal, Impose, Intelligent, Requiring

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.

Air, Mean, Physiological, Reflection, Significant, Value

In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

Challenges, Earth, Planet, Relationship, Responsibility

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