Quotes of: Reactionary Keyword

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 climate.

Bruce Davison

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 not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal,...

Rick Perlstein

I tend to be reactionary.

Billy Corgan

All adventure is now reactionary.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.

Tom Metzger

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Robert Conquest

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

Aneurin Bevan

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

Theodore Roosevelt

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Ebert

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Mikhail Bakunin

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Noam Chomsky

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

David Benedictus

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Robin G. Collingwood

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

Elizabeth Joan Smith

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

John Howard

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