The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
~By Saul Steinberg ~
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 ~
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
~By John Mortimer ~
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 ~
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
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 ~
Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?
~By Francis Bond Head ~
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
~By George Orwell ~
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 probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
~By Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ~
To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
~By Garet Garrett ~
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
~By Beth Orton ~
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
~By Gunther Schuller ~
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
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 love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
~By Michael Chabon ~
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
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 ~
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
~By Joe Slovo ~
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 ~
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
~By Ron Reagan ~
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
~By Ursula K. LeGuin ~
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 ~
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
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 ~
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
~By C. L. R. James ~
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 ~
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
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 ~
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
~By Che Guevara ~
In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
~By Herbert Read ~
Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
~By George G. Simpson ~
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
~By Warren G. Harding ~
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
~By Albert Camus ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
Revolutions are always verbose.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
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 ~
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
~By Fidel Castro ~
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
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 ~
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 ~
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~By George Orwell ~
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
~By George C. Marshall ~
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 ~
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
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 ~
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.
~By Rod Parsley ~
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 ~
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
~By James Lovelock ~
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
~By Esther Dyson ~
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
~By Jung Chang ~
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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 ~
Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.
~By John Ambrose Fleming ~
The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.
~By Fernando Wood ~
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
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 ~
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
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 ~
Revolutions are not made for export.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
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 ~
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
~By Mao Zedong ~
We are revolutionaries.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
~By Joan Blades ~
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
~By Courtney Love ~
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
~By Kim Il Sung ~
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
~By John Morley ~
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
~By Robin G. Collingwood ~
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 ~
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 ~
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
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