#volution

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ↗

— Emiliano Zapata

#revolution #revolution

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#war #revolution

The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#elections

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#rebel #rebellion #revolution #revolution

The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled ↗

— Allama Muhammad Iqbal

#future #iqbal #poetry #revolution #visions

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE ↗

— George Orwell

#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#evolution #religion #religion

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#science

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humour #science #science