Evolution Quotes - Page 12

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?