Facts are counterrevolutionary.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
~By Peter Gabriel ~
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
~By Warren Farrell ~
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
~By Germaine Greer ~
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
~By Jean Chretien ~
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.
~By Johann Most ~
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
~By Ken Kesey ~
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.
~By Herman Gorter ~
If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.
~By Perry Farrell ~
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
~By George Haven Putnam ~
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
~By John Morley ~
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
Revolutions are always verbose.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
~By Jared Diamond ~
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
~By Marvin Harris ~
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
~By Garet Garrett ~
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
~By Arthur Keith ~
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.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
~By Kelly Lynch ~
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
~By Teilhard de Chardin ~
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
~By George Farquhar ~
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
~By Karl Marx ~
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
~By August Strindberg ~
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
I was born in revolution.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
~By William Godwin ~
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~By Mao Zedong ~
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
~By Paul Berg ~
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
We completely reject the theory of evolution.
~By John Ambrose Fleming ~
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
~By Albert Camus ~
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~By Germaine Greer ~
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
~By Ernst Haeckel ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
~By Guy Kawasaki ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
~By Lee Child ~
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
~By Bill Hicks ~
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
~By Robert Nozick ~
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
~By Luther Burbank ~
This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
~By Chris Wedge ~
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.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
~By Steven Wright ~
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
Revolutions go not backward.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
~By Walter Lang ~
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
~By Hu Shih ~
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
~By Jean Piaget ~
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
~By Mike Tyson ~
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
~By Georg Buchner ~
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