Devolved Quotes
Lines on decline, shifting power, and hardened history
These quotes reflect on the idea of things devolving, whether that means an ideal losing its meaning or authority passing from one body to another. Related reading can be found in our age quotes collection.
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm...
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.
Age Quotes
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
We are now living through peak stupid with the left, and this 'toxic masculinity,' 'white patriarch' nonsense, where they've now devolved to judging people exclusively by their gender and their skin color is a marker of the total intellectual collapse...
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
Alongside Quotes
Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
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Some lines here take a sober, historical view, including reflection on how the world grew harsher after the September 11 terrorist attacks. See also our always quotes page.
