The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

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.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.