#evolution

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#shot-heard-around-the-world #nature

There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#evolution

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#catholic-creed #catholicism #darwinism #evolution #evolution

Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#evolution

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#hinduism #spiritual #evolution

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#humour #revolution

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

#revolution

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#history #revolution

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#revolution

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. ↗

— Michael Moore

#librarians #revolution