Motivational Quotes

Evolution

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

- Djilas, Milovan

Best Quotes about Evolution

If not us, who? If not now, when?

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Conklin, Edward

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Genet, Jean

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rohm, Ernst

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Castro, Fidel

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

Thomas, Norman

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Ellis, Havelock

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Mencken, H. L.

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Peirce, Charles Sanders

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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Tuchman, Barbara

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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Castro, Fidel

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Rogers, Will

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After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.

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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Walker, Alice

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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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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Greene, Graham

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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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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Plato

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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Bambara, Toni Cade

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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Marx, Karl

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Fox, Charles James

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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Diderot, Denis

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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Djilas, Milovan

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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Camus, Albert

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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