Quotes about evolution

"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."

Camus, Albert on evolution
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"Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic."

Camus, Albert on evolution   

"More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other."

Camus, Albert on evolution   

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

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   

"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   

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. 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   

"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 on evolution   

"Clemency is also a revolutionary measure."

Desmoulins, Camille on evolution   

"Our cause is just. Our union is perfect."

Dickinson, John on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

Disraeli, Benjamin on evolution   

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"Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long."

Djilas, Milovan on evolution
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"Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings."

Dryden, John on evolution   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on evolution
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"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on evolution   

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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 on evolution   

"The worst of revolutions is a restoration."

Fox, Charles James on evolution   

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

Fromm, Erich on evolution   

"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on evolution   

"A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y 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   

"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von 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 children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

Guin, Ursula K. Le 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   

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

Heine, Heinrich on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

"The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer."

Hoffer, Eric 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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"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."

Hoffman, Abbie on evolution   

"Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on evolution   

"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers."

Hooker, Richard on evolution   

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

Hugo, Victor on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

"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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