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Robin G Collingwood

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

– Robin G Collingwood

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book ‘The Reactionary Mind,’ that the direction of human history is not on their side – that is why they are reactionaries – because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

– Rick Perlstein

Patricia Ireland

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

– Patricia Ireland

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

– Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

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.

– Mao Zedong

Linda Colley

For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory reactionaries, or – rather like the Jacobites – made the subject only of nostalgic antiquarianism.

– Linda Colley

Joe Klein

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

– Joe Klein

Anthony Scaramucci

America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.

– Anthony Scaramucci

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