31 Reactionary Quotes for You to Enjoy

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.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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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

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I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap. Alastair Reynolds

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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 like reactionary troglodytes. Jack Schwartz

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It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class. Janos Kadar

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Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. Louis MacNeice

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There are two Tory parties: the trendy, socially liberal Notting Hill set which dominates at the national level, and the unreconstructed, reactionary, and often bigoted members of Conservative associations at the local level. The latter have yet to reconcile themselves to the reality of modern, multiracial Britain. Mehdi Hasan

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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 the life of a society, as well as an individual's. Michel Houellebecq

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Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them. Neve McIntosh

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

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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.' Patrick Soon-Shiong

I'm not a reactionary. Renee Fleming

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The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all. Rick Perlstein

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Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake. Rick Perlstein

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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, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism. Rick Perlstein

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Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands. Robert Conquest

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