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

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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.

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.