#evolution

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Boulez

#dangerous #longer #revolutions

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#did #expect #i #revolution #said

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

We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#clashes #evolution #jewry #know #necessary

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

#attacks #believed #best #bin #difficult

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#devours #like #own #revolution #saturn

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#evolution #godless #insist #parents #right

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

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #cruelty #further #just #level