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We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.
We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.
We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'
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.
We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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.
When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.
There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.
We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture
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
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?
The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.
Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.
The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
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.
If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.
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.
Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
You can play a role in the shaping of tomorrow's world by asking yourself questions like, 'What kind of world do I want to live in?' and 'What does democracy mean to me?'
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?