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I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
— Pat Conroy
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.
— Bruce Robinson
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
— Charles Spurgeon
California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.
— Ilya Ilf
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
— John Howard
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
— Andre Maurois
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.
— Noam Chomsky
Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.
— Robert D. Putnam
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
An artist must be a reactionary
— Evelyn Waugh
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
— Elizabeth Joan Smith
A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
— Calvin Coolidge
Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.
— Christopher Hitchens
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest honour in a reactionary country is to be a progressive man!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
— Winston Churchill
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
— Roland Barthes
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
— Assata Shakur
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
— Avital Ronell
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
— Susan Sontag
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
— Woodrow Wilson
The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness.
— Roland Barthes
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
— Christopher Hitchens
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
— Isabel Paterson
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
— Richard Hofstadter
The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.
— Tom Metzger
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
— Beatrice Webb
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
— Arthur Miller
I tend to be reactionary.
— Billy Corgan
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
— Elisabeth Marbury
I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.
— Xosha Roquemore
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
— George Orwell
The reactionary's objection is not discussed; it is disdained.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968.
— Haruki Murakami
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
— Friedrich Ebert
I'm not a reactionary.
— Renee Fleming
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
— Anton Rubinstein
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
— Kenneth Rexroth
I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
— Evgeny Morozov
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
— Robert Conquest
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
— Andrew Sullivan
All adventure is now reactionary.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
