Top 120 Jacque Fresco Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you’re not one of those that will.”

— Jacque Fresco

2. “Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.”

— Jacque Fresco

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3. “If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That’s love.”

— Jacque Fresco

4. “It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know, you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.”

— Jacque Fresco

5. “The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.”

— Jacque Fresco

6. “Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways.”

— Jacque Fresco

7. “No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.”

— Jacque Fresco

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8. “We don’t know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?”

— Jacque Fresco

9. “I don’t want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.”

— Jacque Fresco

10. “War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.”

— Jacque Fresco

11. “There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.”

— Jacque Fresco

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

— Jacque Fresco

13. “Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today’s high tech society.”

— Jacque Fresco

14. “Don’t forget – you’re dealing with aberrated people. They’re not responsible for their answers. They’re victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.”

— Jacque Fresco

15. “Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.”

— Jacque Fresco

16. “As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.”

— Jacque Fresco

17. “Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren’t based on scientific studies.”

— Jacque Fresco

18. “The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It’s about a way of thinking.”

— Jacque Fresco

19. “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.”

— Jacque Fresco

20. “As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.”

— Jacque Fresco

21. “Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.”

— Jacque Fresco

22. “People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.”

— Jacque Fresco

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23. “The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society...”

— Jacque Fresco

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

— Jacque Fresco

25. “We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.”

— Jacque Fresco

26. “You really don’t want a job. What you want is access to those things you’d like to have.”

— Jacque Fresco

27. “War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.”

— Jacque Fresco

28. “Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.”

— Jacque Fresco

29. “I don’t get upset if people think I’m crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that’s the way I think about the world. They don’t know any better.”

— Jacque Fresco

30. “If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there ’cause there’s oil, resources or something we need.”

— Jacque Fresco

31. “The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That’s a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions.”

— Jacque Fresco

32. “If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it’ll be a horror film.”

— Jacque Fresco

33. “Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.”

— Jacque Fresco

34. “We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let’s teach our children to be thinkers.”

— Jacque Fresco

35. “It’s hard in a monetary system to trust people.”

— Jacque Fresco

36. “To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.”

— Jacque Fresco

37. “Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.”

— Jacque Fresco

38. “If you’re shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there’s no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a ‘nothing’ thing.”

— Jacque Fresco

39. “During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?”

— Jacque Fresco

40. “People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.”

— Jacque Fresco

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

— Jacque Fresco

42. “So, “normal” is really what society dictates as normal and if we’re born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?”

— Jacque Fresco

43. “Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.”

— Jacque Fresco

44. “LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.”

— Jacque Fresco

45. “The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.”

— Jacque Fresco

46. “Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.”

— Jacque Fresco

47. “There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.”

— Jacque Fresco

48. “The system you’re brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.”

— Jacque Fresco

49. “Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography – they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.”

— Jacque Fresco

50. “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.”

— Jacque Fresco