We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
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 ~
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
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.
~By George Sand ~
Every generation needs a new revolution.
~By Jeff Rich ~
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
~By George Weah ~
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
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 ~
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.
~By John M. Ford ~
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
~By Paul Berg ~
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
~By Saunders Lewis ~
I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
~By Fidel Castro ~
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 ~
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
~By John M. Smith ~
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
~By Michael Shermer ~
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
~By John Bacon ~
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
~By Bryan Magee ~
Evolution is a tinkerer.
~By Francois Jacob ~
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
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 ~
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
~By Ted Danson ~
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
~By Warren G. Harding ~
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 ~
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
~By Randall Terry ~
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
~By Andre Norton ~
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
~By Walter Lang ~
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
~By Keith Henson ~
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
~By Wolfgang Hildesheimer ~
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
~By George William Russell ~
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
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. ~
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 ~
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
~By Johann Most ~
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
~By Gordon Getty ~
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 Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
~By Chris Cannon ~
Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.
~By Mort Kondracke ~
Revolutions are not made for export.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
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 ~
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
~By Warren Farrell ~
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 ~
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
~By Laurent Fabius ~
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
~By Kwame Nkrumah ~
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 ~
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
~By Paulo Freire ~
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 ~
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
~By Jock Sturges ~
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 ~
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
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 ~
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
~By Ernst Toller ~
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
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 ~
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 ~
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
~By John Linder ~
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 ~
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
~By Lewis Black ~
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
~By Walter Lang ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.
~By William B. Riley ~
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~By George Orwell ~
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