Contradiction Quote by Ba Jin

I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions…

— William Godwin

Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn’t believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the…

— Vladimir Lenin

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

— Sonia Sanchez

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

— Wang Jianwei

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against…

— Mark Twain

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary…

— Emma Goldman

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

— Ann Reinking

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