Motivational Quotes

Evolution

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

- Djilas, Milovan

Best Quotes about Evolution

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Djilas, Milovan

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Hoffer, Eric

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Fox, Charles James

True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

Orwell, George

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Plato

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Lewis, Wyndham

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Herzen, Alexander

Revolutions are not made for export.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!

Marx, Karl

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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

Camus, Albert

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You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Williams, Tennessee

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

Thomas, Norman

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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Adams, John

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Conrad, Joseph

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

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Riots are the voices of the unheard.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Aristotle

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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better -- and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages.

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Two million years from now the scientists can start a row by claming that the creatures of that period descended from us.

29.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rohm, Ernst

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The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

Adams, John

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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

James, Selma

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

Hooker, Richard

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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Sand, George

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An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Russell, Bertrand

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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

Conrad, Joseph

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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

Reade, W. Winwood

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Hugo, Victor

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Revolutions are always verbose.

Trotsky, Leon

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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Azuela, Mariano

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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.

Trotsky, Leon

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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Bambara, Toni Cade

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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

Lewis, Wyndham

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The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Hoffer, Eric

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So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks.

Bonom, Samuel

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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Castro, Fidel

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Rosenberg, Harold