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
“Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.” — Émile Zola 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
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
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
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
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary. — John Howard 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
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
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
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 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
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
“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
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
“...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
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
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
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
“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
“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
