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We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

— Rusty Schweickart

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

— Marshall McLuhan

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

— David Cameron

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

— John L. Phillips

We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it's something we can adjust to.

— Scott Kelly

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

— Daisaku Ikeda

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

— Sally Ride

On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

— Patrick O'Brian

✗Opposing Perspectives

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

— Ella Maillart

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

— Adlai E. Stevenson