Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth’s resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth’s people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.
Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.
It’s hard in a monetary system to trust people.
You know that you can’t go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it’s so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.
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.
It’s hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.
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.
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.
We’re not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.
Let’s teach our children to be thinkers.
Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
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.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
You don’t see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we’re free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.
We are all victims of culture.
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.
The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.