The Reactionary Mind Quotes

#1. 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

#2. These may or may not be used in your actual novels, but it will give you a sense of relationships and help you establish the habits needed to write on a regular basis.

Patricia Gilliam

#3. God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.

Alex Berenson

#5. 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

#6. Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

Robert A. M. Stern

#7. The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.

Nikolai Bukharin

#8. Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

David Lloyd George