reactionary quotes

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.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.