If we like them, theyre freedom fighters . . . If we dont like them, theyre terrorists. In the unlikely case we cant make up our minds, theyre temporarily only guerrillas. – Carl Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan
Weve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. – Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. – Carl Sagan
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history. – Jean Baudrillard
For me, just being how old I am, I know I dont want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But Ive also come to terms with not being a mother at all. Im actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience. – Lisa Edelstein