Evolution Vs Revolution Quotes

#1. As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

Ram Dass

#2. The intention of the United States government in supporting Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war was to curb the spread of Iran's revolution, but it had the more disastrous effect of curbing its evolution.

Reza Aslan

#3. Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

Brene Brown

#4. Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#5. Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.

David Cannadine

#6. I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

Howard Fast

#7. The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

Gregory Stock

#8. There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

Duane Allman

#9. What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

Glenn Beck

#10. A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

Damian Marley

#11. Revolution is obstructed evolution.

Myrtle Reed

#12. We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

James Levine

#13. The "question" is the source of human evolution and revolution.

Ted Agon

#14. Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group.

Billy Roper

#15. Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Shirley Chisholm

#16. Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

Erik Naggum

#19. There is a growing revolution in the field of human consciousness, as a quest for deeper meaning at the personal level emerges. This book has been written as a contribution to the evolution of human consciousness, seen through the eyes of both practitioners and clients.

Peter Smith

#20. Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within.

Grigoris Deoudis

#21. No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

Peter Kropotkin

#22. Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

Dick Gregory

#23. We think of and talk about the Industrial Revolution as a singular event, but in reality, it spanned decades. It wasn't really a revolution but a gradual evolution with revolutionary implications.

Alex Moazed

#24. A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level.

Matthew Donnelly

#25. The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.]

George Gaylord Simpson

#26. Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Bela Bartok

#28. I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

Ram Dass

#29. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Betty Friedan

#30. The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Stephen Jay Gould

#31. The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.

Judah Freed

#32. However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.

Ameen Rihani