Reactionaries Quotes · Page 2

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

— Randy Newman

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

— Charles Spurgeon

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red…

— Arthur Miller

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

— Asa Butterfield

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

— Christina Stead

Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.

— Bryan Fuller

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

— Noam Chomsky

I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in…

— Blake Mills

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go…

— Katharine Whitehorn

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term…

— Mao Zedong

I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to…

— Carl Albert

The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are…

— Tariq Ramadan

There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the…

— Spruille Braden

We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and…

— Deepak Chopra

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step…

— Mao Zedong

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant…

— Huey Newton

Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of…

— Gilberto Gil

An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived…

— Paul Samuelson

There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development…

— Mao Zedong

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary…

— Louise Bogan

How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists,…

— David Frum

New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither…

— Alexander Theroux

Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he…

— Bhagat Singh

Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He…

— Bruce Lee

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

— Margaret Thatcher

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

— Josip Broz Tito

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

— Miguel de Unamuno

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

— Kenneth Rexroth

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

— Elisabeth Marbury

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

— George Orwell

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

— Evgeny Morozov

Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that…

— Xavier Dolan

For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs…

— David L. Ulin

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois