Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on. — N. K. Jemisin 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
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary. — John Howard 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
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
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power. — Elisabeth Marbury 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“...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
“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
“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
To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes. — Michael Foot 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
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