Evolution Quotes - Page 5

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

All we ask is to be let alone.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live.

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.