Reactionary Quotes

"Do the day`s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don`t be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don`t be a demagogue. Don`t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don`t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don`t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don`t hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation."

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

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.

It didn`t take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

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.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.

All adventure is now reactionary.

He was not particularly reactionary; he didn`t stand in the schoolhouse doors, forbid entry or anything. But if the world had run by his standards, there would not have been integration.