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• What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Hurt, Irrelevance

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Real, Campaigns

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

  David L. Ulin

  Technology, Media, Age

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

  Michael Foot

  Attitude, Law, Judging

  ITV's "People and Politics", May 9, 1974.

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• Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes. To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Blood, Giving, Enemy

  "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

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• In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Fate, Plot

  Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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• Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

  Louise Bogan

  Strong, Real, Men

  Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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• When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Party, Class, Names

  "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.

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• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Taken, Europe, Wish

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• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• 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.

  Walter Lippmann

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

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• Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

  Margaret Thatcher

  Accusation, Wells, Response

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• Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Attitude, Men, Ideas

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• We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ocean, Add, Sometimes

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
  such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
  this reason, the better.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Numbers, Giving

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo on March 19, 1922. "The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive". Book by Richard Pipes, p. 152-154, 1996.

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• The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, War, Degrees

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• The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Tired, Suffering, Earth

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Stressful Situations, Blindness

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.133, Zondervan

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• The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Character, Feet

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• A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.

  Tony Burgess

  Fall, Thinking, Rocks

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Views, Law

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• 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.

  Tariq Ali

  Thinking, Tragedy, Unions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Ideas, Guy, Nazism

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• 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.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophical, Mind, Example

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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