Jacque Fresco Quotes

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains--chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment--in a word, Circumstance--and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

When I was in Russia I found that I thought I was going to give these people that I was interviewing a whole bunch of choice in terms of what they could drink while we were chatting.

I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

When was it that people decided as a society that your body is in one place and your sexuality in another place, something like a hat, or a coat, that when you leave home you hang it and when you come back home you say, "Ah! Let's wear my sexuality! I might wear it tonight"? It is something that belongs to your body.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.