#evolution

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#real #revolution #sign

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. ↗

— Kate Millett

#committed #cruelty #execution #first #lost

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#i #nothing #novel #offer #revolutionary

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ↗

— John Mortimer

#minute #per #played #revolutions #thousand

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

#revolution #revolutionary #you

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

#been #hands #inherit #revolution #young

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. ↗

— Huey Newton

#first #learn #lesson #man #must