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
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;… — Evelyn Waugh 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
“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
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
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
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. — Noam Chomsky 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
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