In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his childhood friend Marcel’s reaction to the word “revolution”:It was senseless to try to change anything in the world or in life; things were bad enough even if one did not meddle with them.

Source: Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975)