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“All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.”

People Long Reality Term Views Powerful Paper Appearance Point Of View Long Term Tigers Reactionaries Really Powerful

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.”

Soul Political Views Point Of View Reactionaries

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.”

Firsts War States Able Names United United States Groups Strange Cold Direct Unions Western Chinese Islamic Communist Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Eastern Coalitions Reactionaries Afghan

Author:David Frum

“In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.”

Men War America Views Hell Cold Red Cold War Alliances Reactionaries

Book:Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge

Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge

“Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.”

Want Heart Brain Emotional Football Intellectual Evolve Reactionaries

Book:Football: An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Football: An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur

“A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have”

People Enough Hands Term Progress Conservative Radical Reactionaries

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.”

Home Conservatism Reactionaries

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.”

Class Shots Criticism Ears Opening Elites Conservatism Reactionaries Uprising

Book:The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It

Source: The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It

“I'm not a reactionary.”

Author:Renee Fleming

“A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.”

Want Wells Book States Individual Possibility Return Reactionaries Irreversible

Author:Michel Houellebecq