Evolution Quotes - Page 19

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Revolution is not an event! It's a process

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason: The major animal groups appear abruptly in the rocks over a relatively short time, rather than evolving gradually from a common ancestor as Darwin's theory predicts. When this conclusion upsets American scientists, he wryly comments: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."

As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.