#evolution

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#power #reform #revolution #transfer

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#nowadays #really #revolution

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #end #even #except #first

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

#i #last #most #perceive #power

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. ↗

— Camille Desmoulins

#clemency #measure #revolutionary

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. ↗

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#evolution #except #light #makes #nothing

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. ↗