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… evolution over revolution.

Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.

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

Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Peace, retrenchment and reform.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time.

America is a conservative country with a small “c” - they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.

I would like to see evolution in my country, not revolution. It is much better for us to work together with the government to transform Saudi Arabia for the future.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

I am always for change. But I believe in slow and inevitable change and not a forced one, all of a sudden.

If people are not patient and want radical change, it could set China back in a way to harm a lot of people. I advocate more freedom based on stability.

I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.

We must unite to build a safe, new Kenya.

There is no scope for revolutions coming to Belarus.