#volution

The genes supply the motivation for warfare, [E. O.] Wilson is saying, in humans as they do in chimps, but people, blessed with the power of language, look for some objective cause of war. A society psychs itself up to go to war by agreeing that their neighbors have wronged them, whether by seizing property or failing to deliver on some promise. Religious leaders confirm that the local deity favors their cause and off go the troops. ↗

— Nicholas Wade

#motivational

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#revolution #war #men

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#music #revolution #music

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. ↗

— Emil A. Zafirov

#evolution #god #human #religion #religion

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music ↗

— Bob Marley

#inspriational #reggea #revolutionary #wailers #music

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound? ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#music #transcendentalism #music

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#humanity #music

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#nature

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mutation #natural-selection #nature

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? ↗

— Robert Ardrey

#human-nature #science #nature