As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito 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
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. — Noam Chomsky 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
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd… — Vladimir Lenin 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
Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because… — Newt Gingrich 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
Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power. — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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