#evolutionary

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#combination #deeper #events #fell #influences

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game. ↗

— Courtney Love

#believe #cash #fun #game #get

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. ↗

— Karl Marx

#generalization #lack #material #revolution #revolutionary

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction