#evolution

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#kicking #revolutions #rotten #successful

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#became #beginning #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant,' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders... ↗

— Stuart Archer Cohen

#experience #faith #god #hope-lost #lando

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work. ↗

— Keith Haring

#control #developing #does #dripping #evolution

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#device #efforts #generating #major #necessary

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#heads #modern #revolutionary #station #television

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#only #own #revolution #support #way

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. ↗

— William Hooper

#am #astronomical #chapel #chapel hill #find

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#call #eternal #evil #evolution #moment

Natural selection is not evolution. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#natural #natural selection #selection