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But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a… — Huey Newton
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary… — Gerhard Richter
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. — Mikhail Bakunin
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of… — Lion Feuchtwanger
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands. — Robert Conquest
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. — Anton Rubinstein
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. — Elizabeth Joan Smith
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress. — Isabel Paterson
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first… — Andre Breton
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By… — Evelyn Waugh
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our… — Janos Kadar
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. — Friedrich Ebert
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive… — Alasdair MacIntyre
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which… — Calvin Coolidge
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To… — Steven Pinker
The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in… — Mao Zedong
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. — Calvin Coolidge
The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend,… — Ludwig von Mises
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy… — A. Philip Randolph
It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no… — Warren Beatty
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling… — Mao Zedong
It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to… — Mao Zedong
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section… — Mao Zedong
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. — Karl Marx

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