Andrew

“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of he stars.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“Jerusalem is the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions and she is the only city to exist twice—in heaven and on earth: the peerless grace of the terrestrial is as nothing to the glories of the celestial.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography

“I’m suspicious of people who are certain.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends