Devolution Quotes

“Most humans stay away from meaningful novels because they’ve been programmed to gravitate toward popcorn genre fiction, which isn’t much more thought-provoking than low-quality TV shows. The matrix has turned most human’s attention spans into that of a fish’s, so most humans can’t even focus long enough to read any type of novel.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Maybe some instinct told them it was time to swap evolution for devolution, reach back to who they were to take back what was theirs.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“As the human race gradually evolves most of us will become beings of light, gradually transparent and invisible to the eye, with little use for human bodies. Chavs on the other hand, will devolve until they eventually learn to breathe through gills again, return to the water and become seaweed or mud.

Darwin would turn in his grave”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Sometimes it's better to beat a dead horse than to worry about whether or not it might recover.”
― John Casey, Devolution

“Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.”
― Mary McGrory

“An enabling force of the Internet is hyperconnectivity in the global community. The unintended consequence is that we are allowing tech to govern who we are; leading to society which is disconnected from our local communities. - Tom Golway 2020”
― Tom Golway

“There has been some talk (but not enough) about the political and social consequences of the devolution fiasco three years ago, but none at all about the cultural consequences. At the time my friends were startled and mystified when I told them what a blow the result had been to me, not as a person but as a novelist who thought his mission was to portray the Scottish people. I could not see how any writer could portray with enthusiasm and conviction a nation that had so little faith in itself as to reject a modest degree of self-government or, to put it more accurately, to let itself be cheated by a piece of parliamentary chicanery. In Canada I could hardly get anyone to believe me when I explained the 40% condition.”
― Robin Jenkins, The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 27

“all roads lead to Tabula Ra$a”
― Jason Pargin, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“The devolution of sense is the evolution of nonsense.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It is possible that John Major... will be able to suspend the battle for Scotland with an armistice on Unionist terms. But my guess is that he will not be able to bring about permanent political peace. To do that would require an unpredicted and irreversible shift in Scottish feeling - a shrugging off of real history and a retreat from real politics altogether... A Scotland genuinely at ease with itself would be an argumentative, grown-up Scotland with a lively parliament as well as a strong economy - a conscience and a tongue, as well as limbs and a body. And when it does speak, its voice will be sharp and fresh. And its views will perhaps surprise us.”
― Andrew Marr, The Battle for Scotland