#evolutionary

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#becomes #eat #food #real #revolutionary

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

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#fatalism #like #never #party #passive

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#cause #degree #more #proletariat #revolution

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

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#ever #find #his #known #man

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

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. ↗

— John Green

#failure #side-effects #van-houten-being-a-douche #experience

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#human-nature #selfishness #dreams

The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts — the punch-line…Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it’s inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature’s way of signaling that "it’s a false alarm." Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don’t waste your precious resources on this situation; it’s a false alarm. Laughter is nature’s OK signal. ↗

— V.S. Ramachandran

#humor #laughter #humor