Definition of Reactionary
Reactionary
Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
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Reactionary Quotations
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson
All adventure is now reactionary.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
Mikhail Bakunin
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Robert Conquest
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
Friedrich Ebert
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.
Henry Cabot Lodge
It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
Warren Beatty
Reactionary Translations
reactionary in Dutch is reactionair
reactionary in Italian is reazionario
reactionary in Spanish is reaccionario
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