The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

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.

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

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

Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.

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