“Reactionary 'sheeple' are often more attractive than, ego-driven, nihilistic, phoney,love-fearing,master-race-belief-system-victim-collectors. Fine lines there” — Elizabeth Lucye Robillard Copy Share Image
“I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary. — John Howard Copy Share Image
Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary] — Margaret Thatcher 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
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns,… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply,… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such… — Alexander Mackenzie Copy Share Image
The only part of 'A Ghost Story' that was reactionary was a temporal one. I had spent so much time making 'Pete's… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.” — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power. — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
It's a constant process for me to learn to take the time to really understand what hurt me and how best to… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human… — Rick Perlstein 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
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Senility is a relinquishment of life as it is in the here and now and the taking of refuge into the security… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image