#evolution

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ↗

— Aristotle

#poverty #revolution #society #parenting

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#history #immigration #politics #revolution #united-states

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ↗

— Adam Smith

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#evolution #religion #religion

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#science

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humour #science #science

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#creationism #evolution #science #life

Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#revolution #self

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality #rage-against-the-machine #revolution #equality

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#born #country #decry #ever #history