#volution

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#evolution #ideology #obtuseness #understanding #ideology

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked. ↗

— George Orwell

#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#cuba #government #passivity #revolution #anarchy

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#choice #evolution #evolved #i #i think

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#anything #before #beginning #had #like

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#coming #companies #every #industry #need

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all. ↗

— David Attenborough

#being #bringing #chose #concerned #evolution

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#crimes #does #impossible #make #may

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bedrock #built #core #core values #ensuring

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial