The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
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.
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.
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
It is right to rebel against reactionaries.
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.
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
I'm not a reactionary.
I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.
History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.
An artist must be a reactionary
Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
