Bad side Quote by Ariel Dorfman

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to…

— Stephen Kinzer

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world…

— Christopher Caldwell

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone…

— Boris Pasternak

Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.

— Anthony Liccione

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

— Wang Jianwei

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“Successful revolutionaries do occasionally end up in positions of power, but they seem more likely, on the historical record, to end up dead, courtesy…

— Anonymous

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if…

— Gore Vidal

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual…

— Francesco Guicciardini

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its…

— John Taylor of Caroline