Jacque Fresco Quotes

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.

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.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Let us be willing to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the 20th century, moving into a new millennium.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

The world is changing very profoundly.

Since it is one of the great attributes of our species to be susceptible of improvement and capable of experiencing the most beneficial changes, for this reason what are vulgarly called 'venerable establishments' will often range themselves in opposition to the best interests of the community.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.