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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. — Theodore Roosevelt
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm… — Gary Vaynerchuk
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at… — Woodrow Wilson
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in… — Christopher Hitchens
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have… — Lynne Truss
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. — Pat Conroy
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the… — Bell Hooks
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. — Assata Shakur
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful… — Calvin Coolidge
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. — Noam Chomsky
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo… — Anthony Albanese
Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the… — Tim Wise
I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am… — Alexander Mackenzie
The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere. — Tom Metzger
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding… — Jack Schwartz
I tend to be reactionary. — Billy Corgan
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and… — Alexander Haig

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