The Integrity of the Intellect (July 1920)
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Statement in 1965, in reference to Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963) by Buckminster Fuller, as quoted Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds (2005) by Daniel A. Vallero, p. 367
1960s
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
Marshall McLuhan
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power
“To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.”
Peter David book Stone and Anvil
Source: Stone and Anvil
Jaswant Singh (1938–2020) Indian politician and retired army officer
Source: As Minister of External Affairs of India, over Hijacking of Flight 814), Jaswant Singh's version of the Kandahar hijack https://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/21onkar1.htm (from Rediff).
Claude Lévi-Strauss book The Raw and the Cooked
The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology (1975) Vol. I, [Le Cru et le Cuit, as translated by Doreen and John Weightman], p. 113
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
This saying appears to be due to John Augustus Shedd; it was quoted in "Grace Hopper : The Youthful Teacher of Us All" by Henry S. Tropp in Abacus Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Fall 1984) ISSN 0724-6722 . She did repeat this saying on multiple occasions, but she called it "a motto that has stuck with me" and did not claim coinage. Additional variations and citations may be found at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/09/safe-harbor/ <br class="br">Misattributed
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)
“He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (1966)
Context: When I was fifteen and had quit school forever, I went to work in a vineyard near Sanger with a number of Mexicans, one of whom was only a year or two older than myself, an earnest boy named Felipe. One gray, dismal, cold, dreary day in January, while we were pruning muscat vines, I said to this boy, simply in order to be talking, "If you had your wish, Felipe, what would you want to be? A doctor, a farmer, a singer, a painter, a matador, or what?" Felipe thought a minute, and then he said, "Passenger." This was exciting to hear, and definitely something to talk about at some length, which we did. He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.
