#reactionary

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

I tend to be reactionary. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#reactionary #tend

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#american #any #apply #born #call

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#age #along #artist #go #must

Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber. ↗

— John Mica

#ban #because #bomber #box #course

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. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

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

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. ↗

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

#elections #get #involved #leaders #reactionary