“ Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. ”
- Robin G. Collingwood- Copy
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“ Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb… ”
- Zedong Mao- Copy
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“ This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades,... There was no reason for him to choose anyone but one of these outstanding conservatives. ”
- David Frum- Copy
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“ The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o' clock and the Conservatives at eight. ”
- Gabriel García Márquez- Copy
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“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands. ”
- Robert Conquest- Copy
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“ An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ 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 sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. ”
- Alexander Mackenzie- Copy
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“ Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India. ”
- Ronald Segal- Copy
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“ All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb… ”
- Mao Zedong- Copy
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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.- Copy
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“ One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing. ”
- James H. Robinson- Copy
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