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Reactionaries Quotes

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Interview by Anne Louise Strong, Aug. 1946

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

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.321, Courier Corporation

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books

An artist must be a reactionary

Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.29, Penguin UK

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”

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

George Otis (1991). “The Last of the Giants”, Chosen Books Publishing Company

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

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

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.