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I'm not a reactionary.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
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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 it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Win
Sense
Defeat
Futility
Moral
Must
Rioting
Riots
Moral Questions
Followed
Emotional
Participants
Invites
Know
Involves
Catharsis
Reactionary
Because
Limitation
Questions
Revolutionary
Cannot
Aside
Hence
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Backwards
Reactionary
Walking
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
Mikhail Bakunin
Revolution
Reactionary
Makes
Anyone
After
Plans
Who
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
Me
Think
Composer
Composers
Pianist
Reactionary
Call
I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.
Alastair Reynolds
Right-Wing
Like
Reactionary
Lot
Crap
Much
Hard
Published
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 which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
Alexander Haig
People
World
Three
Long
Liberal
Months
Followed
More
More People
Take
Had
Executed
Reactionary
Years
Bloody
Than
Done
Which
Regime
Realize
Next
Enlightened
There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists.
Anita Sarkeesian
Culture
Women
Hatred
Say
Backlash
Those
Drives
Also
Reactionary
Within
Feminists
Anything
Against
Gaming
Who
Tech
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 represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
Anthony Albanese
Injustice
Fear
Odds
Past
Down
Conservatives
Recognise
Unable
Status
Status Quo
True
Reactionary
Represents
Being
Want
Quo
Anything
Gains
Even
Tear
Actually
Extent
The only part of 'A Ghost Story' that was reactionary was a temporal one. I had spent so much time making 'Pete's Dragon' that I was really impatient and excited to make something new. When this project presented itself, I was ready to jump right into it. I started shooting two days after 'Pete's Dragon.'
David Lowery
Time
Project
Spent
Ghost
Temporal
Something
Impatient
Only
Something New
Had
Part
Excited
New
Days
Reactionary
Make
Ready
Making
Jump
Itself
Shooting
So Much Time
After
Story
Much
Really
Right
Started
Presented
Two
Dragon
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
Edmund White
See
Could
Mystique
Had
Period
Reactionary
Retrospect
Feminine
Been
America
Eisenhower
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