Quotes about evolution

"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth."

Ibsen, Henrik on evolution   

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

Inge, Dean William R. on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

"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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"Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on evolution   

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Kennedy, John F. on evolution
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"Revolutions are not made for export."

Khrushchev, Nikita on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

"Riots are the voices of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evolution   

"In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evolution
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"You cannot make a revolution in white gloves."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 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 today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."

Lewis, Wyndham on evolution   

"At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses."

Liebknecht, Karl on evolution   

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

Marcos, Ferdinand E. on evolution   

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!"

Marx, Karl on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

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

Nkrumah, Kwame on evolution   

"Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other."

Orwell, George on evolution   

"Revolutions are not made, they come."

Phillips, Wendell on evolution   

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"Revolutions never go backward."

Phillips, Wendell on evolution   

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

Plato on evolution
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"The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance."

Rich, Adrienne on evolution   

"One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next."

Rogers, Will on evolution   

"All revolutions devour their own children."

Rohm, Ernst on evolution   

"The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."

Rosenberg, Harold on evolution   

"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand."

Sand, George on evolution   

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

Shaw, George Bernard on evolution   

"A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor."

Smith, Sydney on evolution   

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

Stoppard, Tom on evolution   

"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it."

Thomas, Norman on evolution   

"In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on evolution   

"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 on evolution   

"Revolutions are always verbose."

Trotsky, Leon on evolution   

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

Tuchman, Barbara on evolution   

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

Unknown, Source on evolution   

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

Unknown, Source on evolution   

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."

Vaneigem, Raoul on evolution