Jacque Fresco Quotes

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

As someone who has dealt with economic hardship, I am committed to making the changes necessary for our country to become more equitable. And to do so, I believe we need to think big.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.