Jacque Fresco Quotes



Best 7 Other Quotes by Jacque Fresco

“Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.”

“I was asked once, "You're a smart man, why aren't you rich?"
I replied, "You're a rich man, why aren't you smart?”

“If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.”

“The only limitations on the future of the humankind are those we impose upon ourselves.”

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

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

“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.”

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“We put solar panels on a single family home but can’t change the impact of inefficient construction or the consumption inherent to moving around the suburbs. We buy hybrid cars but must drive in the gridlocks of daily commutes. We buy ‘green washed’ products but continue the same hyper consumption that sprawl mandates. These improvements produce a better kind of wrongness.”


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