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Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right. -- Mao Zedong
All reactionaries are paper tigers. -- Mao Zedong
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. -- Robin G. Collingwood
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
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
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
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
It is right to rebel against reactionaries. -- Mao Zedong
History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers. -- George Otis
Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood. -- Joseph Losey
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers. -- Cesar Chavez
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining. -- Christina Stead
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools -- John Dewey
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill. -- Noam Chomsky
The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights. -- Russell Kirk
Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors. -- Melody Beattie
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord. -- Mao Zedong
What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance. -- Christopher Hitchens
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world. -- David L. Ulin

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