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

Fonda, Jane on evolution   

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

Fromm, Erich on evolution   

"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

Genet, Jean on evolution   

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Greer, Germaine on evolution   

"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."

Guizot, Francois (Pierre Guillaume) on evolution   

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

Halifax, Edward F. on evolution   

"True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on evolution   

"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 on evolution
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"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. on evolution   

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on evolution
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on evolution
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"And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system."

Johnson, Samuel on evolution   

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."

Kafka, Franz on evolution
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Kennedy, John F. on evolution
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"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."

Lewis, Wyndham on evolution   

"It is easier to run a revolution than a government."

Marcos, Ferdinand E. on evolution   

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on evolution
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"Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings."

Dryden, John on evolution   

"We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things."

King Jr. Martin Luther on time
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"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."

King Jr. Martin Luther on tragedies
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will."

King Jr. Martin Luther on understanding
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

King Jr. Martin Luther on work
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"Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists."

King Jr. Martin Luther on churches   

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

King Jr. Martin Luther on cooperation
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

King Jr. Martin Luther on death
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."

Aristotle on evolution
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"Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out."

Azuela, Mariano on evolution
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"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims."

Conrad, Joseph on evolution   

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

Castro, Fidel on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

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

Camus, Albert on evolution   

"So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks."

Bonom, Samuel on evolution   

"Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!"

Lewis, Wyndham on evolution   

"Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."

Bierce, Ambrose on evolution   

"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well."

Franklin, Benjamin on reputation
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"One today is worth two tomorrows."

Franklin, Benjamin on present
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors."

Franklin, Benjamin on beards