#evolution

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#revolution #respect

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#brought #history #i #i think #important

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #individuals #most #periods #revolutions

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#make #really #revolution #socialist #trying

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#ever #find #his #known #man

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! ↗

— Karl Marx

#classes #communist #countries #lose #nothing

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. ↗

— John McCain

#believe #canyon #evolution #god #grand