Quotes About Reactionaries

#1. Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.

Joseph Losey

#2. The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Miguel De Unamuno

#3. The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.

Russell Kirk

#4. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

Mao Zedong

#5. They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Patricia Ireland

#6. The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Christina Stead

#8. Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.

Melody Beattie

#9. It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Mao Zedong

#10. The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

Mao Zedong

#11. Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.

Mario Bunge

#12. All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

#13. Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.

Paulo Freire

#14. Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

Cesar Chavez

#15. The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

John Dewey

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

Robin G. Collingwood

#17. There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

Mao Zedong

#19. The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#20. The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Mao Zedong

#21. The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

Mao Tse-tung

#22. All the media of modern consciousness - from the printing press to radio and the movies - were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.

Adam Gopnik

#23. What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

Christopher Hitchens

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

David Benedictus

#25. History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

George Otis

#26. For new media reactionaries ... the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

David L. Ulin

#27. As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Kenneth Rexroth

#28. He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Charles Spurgeon

#30. An artist must be a reactionary

Evelyn Waugh

#31. Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Josip Broz Tito

#32. Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

Evan Esar

#33. I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.

Xosha Roquemore

#34. How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

Stephen Fry