#reactionary

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

#clear #engage #initiatives #issues #public

All adventure is now reactionary. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#now #reactionary

Every once in a while, however, the subordinates of this world contest their fates. They protest their conditions, write letters and petitions, join movements, and make demands. Their goals may be minimal and discrete — better safety guards on factory machines, an end to marital rape—but in voicing them, they raise the specter of a more fundamental change in power. They cease to be servants or supplicants and become agents, speaking and acting on their own behalf. More than the reforms themselves, it is this assertion of agency by the subject class—the appearance of an insistent and independent voice of demand — that vexes their superiors. Guatemala’s Agrarian Reform of 1952 redistributed a million and a half acres of land to 100,000 peasant families. That was nothing, in the minds of the country’s ruling classes, compared to the riot of political talk the bill seemed to unleash. Progressive reformers, Guatemala’s arch-bishop complained, sent local peasants “gifted with facility with words” to the capital, where they were given opportunities “to speak in public.” That was the great evil of the Agrarian Reform. ↗

— Corey Robin

#reactionary-politics #change

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. ↗

— Alexander Mackenzie

#any #appreciate #canada #considerable #considerable number

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. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#body needs #climate #especially #everybody #i

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

#does #enough #far #go #goes

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#age #along #artist #go #must

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.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

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. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#american people #friends #good #good friends #government

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#everyone #reactionary #subjects #understands