Evolution Quotes - Page 13

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.

The revolution begins at home.

You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.