#evolutionary

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#camp #certain #certain degree #changes #civil

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#criminal #revolutionary #statesman #successful #unsuccessful

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#brought #change #come #jet #like

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #time

To tell the truth is revolutionary. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#tell #truth #truth is

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#goals #mass #must #our #political

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

#being #certainly #companies #dramatic #get

Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #business

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists

The assertion that "culture" explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parents cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age, and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other. ↗

— John Tooby

#evolutionary-psychology #sexes #age