Reactionaries Quotes - Page 6

• It's a constant process for me to learn to take the time to really understand what hurt me and how best to address it or respond. I tend to be reactionary, and that doesn't help me or others. I do try to keep my heart open.

  Laura Regan

  Hurt, Heart, Trying

  "Laura Regan Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Years, Harry Truman

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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

  Xosha Roquemore

  Curse, I Can

  "The Mindy Project’s Xosha Roquemore: Just Being Herself". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Gilberto Gil

  Civilization, Rejection, Peaceful

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Conservative, Brands, Republicanism

  "'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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• If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because it's not a medical reality - when in fact it clearly affects your interaction with the entire world around you - is just frankly reactionary.

  Newt Gingrich

  Reality, Sick, Needs

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of as reactionary views about sexuality and intimacy.

  Christine Sneed

  Thinking, Views, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Issues, Islam, Allies

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• 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"?

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Loyalty, Thinking

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.

  Susan Faludi

  Real, Dark, Past

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• To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

  Randy Newman

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

  Pat Conroy

  Selfish, Mean, Conservative

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• 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.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Running, Writing, Past

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• Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

  Robert Conquest

  History, Conquest, Subjects

  "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

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• The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

  Enver Hoxha

  Thinking, Honor, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1974). “On Further Revolutionizing Our Party and the Life of Our Country as a Whole: Speeches 1967-1968”

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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

  Thinking, Composer, Call Me

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

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Religious, Leader, Agendas

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• If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

  Isabel Paterson

  Years, Progress, Ifs

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

  John Dewey

  School, Army, Media

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.294, SIU Press

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• It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Sight, Phrases

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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

  Country, Anger, Class

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• Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

  Friedrich Ebert

  Democracy, Matter, Violence

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• I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, Thinking, Years

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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