Motivational Quotes

Evolution

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Evolution

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Peirce, Charles Sanders

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

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

Castro, Fidel

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Russell, Bertrand

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Voltaire

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

Adams, John

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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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All revolutions devour their own children.

Rohm, Ernst

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world...life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

Buckle, Henry Thomas

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

Tuchman, Barbara

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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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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Fox, Charles James

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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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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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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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Revolutions are always verbose.

Trotsky, Leon

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At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

Liebknecht, Karl

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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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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Djilas, Milovan

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It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Aristotle

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Plato

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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

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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Hoffer, Eric

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Revolutions are not made for export.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Thomas, Norman

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

Camus, Albert

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Lorenz, Konrad

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Spencer, Herbert

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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Zedong, Mao

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

Genet, Jean

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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Wald, George

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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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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Camus, Albert