Evgeni Ku

“You get to thinking of the Earth as an organism, a living thing. You get to worry about it, care for it, wish it well. National boundaries are as invisible as meridians of longitude, or the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The boundaries are arbitrary. The planet is real. Spaceflight, therefore, is subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in Earth orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts. The nations that had instituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a startling glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one world.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Indeed, as we have seen, the drama and tragedy of the moral life lies in the fact that most human disagreement is between opposing goods rather than between right and wrong.”
― Richard Holloway, Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics

“It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“It’s about what people think is. It’s all imaginary anyway. That’s why it’s important. People only fight over imaginary things.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods