Reactionary Quotes
95 quotes by 79 authors
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
— Aneurin Bevan
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All adventure is now reactionary.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
— Winston Churchill
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility…
— Ammon Hennacy
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The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of…
— Mao Zedong
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There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it…
— Spruille Braden
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All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will…
— Friedrich Engels
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...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of…
— J. Stalin
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I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here?…
— Joy Hester
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We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in…
— Robert Menzies
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The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as…
— Adolf Hitler
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These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what…
— Katrina vanden Heuvel
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To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
— Avital Ronell
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California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.
— Ilya Ilf
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I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political…
— Bruce Davison
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Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have…
— John Mica
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What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like…
— Gilles Deleuze
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their…
— Sidney Robertson Cowell
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