There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. — Avital Ronell Copy Share Image
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others… — Poul Henningsen Copy Share Image
I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in… — Blake Mills Copy Share Image
“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“In trying times, or in times of great moral crises, it is not political ideology - neither liberal nor conservative, progressive nor… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The vision of the Progressive has often been but to walk forward while facing backward; the business of the Reactionary, but that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of being on the correct side… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...pseudo-scientific minds, like those of the scientist or the painter in love with the pictorial, both teaching as they were taught to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
