Evolution Quotes - Page 16

Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable