#evolution

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#establish #must #never #order #revolution

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#found #idea #revolution #which

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. ↗

— John Corigliano

#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

#greatest #remains #revolutions #scoundrels

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. ↗

— Camille Desmoulins

#clemency #measure #revolutionary

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. ↗

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#evolution #except #light #makes #nothing

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#consciousness #defined #development #evolution #grand

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest