Reactionary Quotes

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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. — Aneurin Bevan
All adventure is now reactionary. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
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
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. — Avital Ronell
California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here. — Ilya Ilf
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
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
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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. — Evelyn Waugh
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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