It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the…

— Andrei Grechko

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

— A.C. Grayling

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not…

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Carl Albert

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it,…

— Henry Giroux

New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry.…

— William Jennings Bryan

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

An artist must be a reactionary

— Evelyn Waugh

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

— Susan Sontag

Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for…

— Sidney Robertson Cowell

The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary…

— Ludwig von Mises

Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics…

— Catherine Wilson