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Evolution

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

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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Gilbert, W. S.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Nkrumah, Kwame

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

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Voltaire

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The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.

Byron, Lord

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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 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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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Plato

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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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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Peirce, Charles Sanders

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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

25.

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

Thomas, Norman

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Azuela, Mariano

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

Camus, Albert

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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

32.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Hoffman, Abbie

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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Desmoulins, Camille

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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All revolutions devour their own children.

Rohm, Ernst

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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 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

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Tuchman, Barbara

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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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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