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95 Reactionary quotes by 79 unique authors

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow… — Mao Zedong
An artist must be a reactionary — Evelyn Waugh
The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke… — Huey Newton
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell. — Arthur Miller
Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and… — Chuck Klosterman
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.''… — Woodrow Wilson
New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This… — William Jennings Bryan
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a… — Andrew Sullivan
The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. — Richard Hofstadter
I'm not a reactionary. — Renee Fleming
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in… — Michel Houellebecq
We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political… — Fred Hampton
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch,… — Georges Braque
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. — Susan Sontag
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. — Trofim Lysenko
I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood. — Ricky Gervais
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both… — Vladimir Lenin
Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung… — Bruce Lee
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. — Christopher Hitchens
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage… — Camille Paglia
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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