A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
~By Scott Cook ~
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
~By Adolf Loos ~
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
~By Joe Baca ~
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
~By Fred Hampton ~
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
~By Alfred Noyes ~
As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
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 ~
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
~By George G. Simpson ~
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
~By Janos Kadar ~
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
~By Arthur Keith ~
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 ~
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
~By Edward Lawrie Tatum ~
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
~By Larry Summers ~
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
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 ~
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
~By Nick Cave ~
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
~By Jose Saramago ~
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
~By Barbara Deming ~
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
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 ~
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.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
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 ~
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
~By Erykah Badu ~
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!
~By Evan Parker ~
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
~By Duong Van Minh ~
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 ~
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
~By Keith Henson ~
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
~By James Lovelock ~
Revolutions are not made for export.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
~By John Updike ~
There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Revolutions are always verbose.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
~By Aeschines ~
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
~By George Orwell ~
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
~By Kate Millett ~
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
~By Randall Terry ~
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
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. ~
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
~By Andre Malraux ~
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
~By Thom Mayne ~
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
~By Michael Moore ~
I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
~By Norm Dicks ~
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 ~
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
~By Barbara Deming ~
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
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 ~
We are revolutionaries.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
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 ~
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
~By Gordon Getty ~
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
~By Thomas Kuhn ~
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 ~
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
~By Hugo Black ~
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
~By Donald Johanson ~
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
~By Percy Wyndham Lewis ~
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
~By Bela Bartok ~
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 ~
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.
~By Diane Wood ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
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