Adapt Quote by Roger Scruton

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…

— Michel Houellebecq

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted…

— Poul Henningsen

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is…

— Rick Perlstein

If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things have been…

— Bret Weinstein

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

— Hillary Clinton

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

— John Howard

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always…

— Vladimir Putin

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

— Aneurin Bevan

If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild…

— Russell Kirk

The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between…

— Edward Heath

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

— Rick Perlstein