Evolution Quotes - Page 15

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.

Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

God's first creature, which was light.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Revolution begins with one step

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.