Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war force terror and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

To my utter despair I have discovered and discover every day anew that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

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.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

When I was younger I was listening to a lot of Armenian music you know revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA and funk.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food we are in trouble.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream to destroy the family.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars you've probably become uncool.

From year to year environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives but from evolutionary or geological perspectives what is happening is explosive change.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life the dignity of man the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

In art all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Britain relative to the U.S. is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and now evolutionary biology.