#volution

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ↗

— Graham Greene

#created #evolution #failed #god #his

In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant,' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders... ↗

— Stuart Archer Cohen

#experience #faith #god #hope-lost #lando

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#change #country #had #isolationism #leadership

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#christ #compared #ever #jesus #jesus christ

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#adult #allowed #boy #cringe #develop

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#greatest #greatest number #history #human #human mind

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#better #course #curiosity #discovery #evolutions

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#aspects #been #changes #collective #course

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#every #every time #expect #full-scale #government