Carl Sagan on Freedom
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Carl Sagan, catalogued under freedom, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #97368: "If we like them, they’re freedom fighters, she thought. If we don’t like them, they’re terrorists. In the unlikely case we can’t make up our minds, they’re temporarily only guerri…"
Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #147921: "They did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting the…"
3 Quotes by Carl Sagan on Freedom
"If we like them, they’re freedom fighters, she thought. If we don’t like them, they’re terrorists. In the unlikely case we can’t make up our minds, they’re temporarily only guerrillas."
"They did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors."
"Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors."