Carl Sagan Quotes

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

I'm 'of the world'.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

The whole world is my family.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

The regional voice is the universal voice.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.