#reaction

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#composer #composers #me #pianist #pianists

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#anything #aside #bad #europe #islamists

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it. ↗

— William Scott

#continuation #every #i #i do #last

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #bill #control #facing #farm

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#before #every #free #gullible #life

Action and reaction are equal and opposite. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#equal #opposite #reaction

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction and: as you sow, so shall you reap. ↗

— Sham Hinduja

#cause-and-effect #karma #reactions #karma

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#democracy #freedom #matter #reactionary #using