Motivational Quotes

Evolution

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

- Nkrumah, Kwame

Best Quotes about Evolution

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Revolutions are not made for export.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Desmoulins, Camille

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better -- and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Bambara, Toni Cade

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Greene, Graham

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Voltaire

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Nkrumah, Kwame

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

Conrad, Joseph

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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Twain, Mark

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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Azuela, Mariano

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An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Russell, Bertrand

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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Lewis, Wyndham

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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Marx, Karl

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Mencken, H. L.

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On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Diderot, Denis

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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Spencer, Herbert

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I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Castro, Fidel

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The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.

Byron, Lord

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Walker, Alice

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Peirce, Charles Sanders

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Fox, Charles James

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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Castro, Fidel

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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Herzen, Alexander

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Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heine, Heinrich

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You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Williams, Tennessee

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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

Camus, Albert

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Ellis, Havelock

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Plato

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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Gilbert, W. S.

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Riots are the voices of the unheard.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Hoffer, Eric

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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.

Trotsky, Leon

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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

James, Selma

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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Fonda, Jane

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

Tuchman, Barbara

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Adams, John

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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world...life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De