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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.

  • I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

    Team   Games   Play  
    Source: www.justjared.com
  • Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

    Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
  • 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, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins
  • G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in the same boat in a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." I think that's profoundly true, yet it's difficult to have civil dialogue right now with other Christians, so how can we possibly talk to "all the nations"?

    Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com
  • The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

    "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.
  • The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

    Friday   Country   Cities  
  • I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.

    Chuck Klosterman (2010). “Football: An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because that's what happens when you take the time - or have the time - to really think about the material, but that only accounts for about 60% of what happens on the day. When you're in the moment, you throw it all away. Well, you don't throw it all away, but it's in you now, and everything is reactionary in that moment and you have to be honest and present and listening.

    "‘Indignation’ Stars Logan Lerman And Sarah Gadon On Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath And The Perils Of Oral Sex". Interview with David Ehrlich, www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2016.
  • Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.

    S. Irfan Habib, Bhagat Singh (2007). “To make the deaf hear: ideology and programme of Bhagat Singh and his comrades”
  • The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.

  • Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that he's being subjected to very serious rejections from the reactionary portion of the system, which, unfortunately, is the dominant portion.

  • History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

  • An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

    Running   Writing   Past  
  • Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

  • We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

    Race   Ideas   Black  
  • There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

    Attitude   Law   Judging  
    ITV's "People and Politics", May 9, 1974.
  • Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse.

    Powerful   Keys   Energy  
  • 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.

    Source: deutsche-denker.de
  • We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  • No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

    Power   Doe   Election  
    Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright
  • Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”
  • To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

    RICHARD HOFSTADTER (1962). “The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It”
  • Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

    "Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution". "Collected Works", 9, Marxists, (p. 29), 1905.
  • I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.

    "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.
  • In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

    War   Men   Views  
    Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

  • The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

    Teaching   Exercise   Men  
  • I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

    "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 26, 2016.
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