Motivational Quotes

Evolution

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Evolution

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

Adams, John

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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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It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Bambara, Toni Cade

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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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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Guizot, Francois (Pierre Guillaume)

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

Thomas, Norman

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Peirce, Charles Sanders

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Djilas, Milovan

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Revolutions are always verbose.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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 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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Hoffman, Abbie

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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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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Twain, Mark

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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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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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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Rich, Adrienne

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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Azuela, Mariano