1.
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Josip Broz Tito
Any action in history that seeks to continue its existence will become regressive.
2.
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
Mikhail Bakunin
3.
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
Assata Shakur
5.
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
7.
It is right to rebel against reactionaries.
Mao Zedong
8.
Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
Cesar Chavez
9.
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles Spurgeon
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
Miguel de Unamuno
11.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
Kenneth Rexroth
12.
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
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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
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History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.
George Otis