Carl Sagan on Politics
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Carl Sagan, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #107862: "Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism."
Attributed to Carl Sagan, entry #233926: "We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like th…"
3 Quotes by Carl Sagan on Politics
"Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism."
"We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious."
"If we are to prevent this climactic danger from working its worst, we will simply all have to work together, and for a long time. The principle obstacle is, of course, inertia, resistance to change—huge, worldwide, interlocking industrial, economic, and political establishments all beholden to fossil fuels, when fossil fuels are the problem. In the United States, as the evidence for the seriousness of global warming mounts, the political will to do something about it seems to be shriveling."