Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

There is no progress without struggle.

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

Revolutions are not easy.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Sometimes you will get feedback that is contrary to your vision. You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first.

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.