Reactionaries

Hey Truth, what can't stand about you right wing reactionaries is that you claim to speak for the American people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

People are supposed to be able to choose even if certain reactionaries would like to force the issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Watching these reactionaries is quickly turning my benign my dislike of Republicans into seething hatred. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it explains two things, namely, why there are no artists like Michelangelo nor literary men like Shakespeare in our times -- and why the majority of such artists and literary men as we have are what is commonly called reactionaries, men who would prefer to go back a century or two, and who like to live in out-of-the-way places in old countries, as Landor lived in Florence, Browning in Venice, ❋ Unknown (1881)

They do this by filling the administrative bodies and the courts with their own kind, by hiring reactionaries from the old regime, by enlisting the services of bureaucrats and by corrupting the poor through bribing armies of informers, cutthroats, and bandits … For a long time now, the ministers, and their provincial agents have been attracting to the capital a large number of the destitute, the dregs of the army and the scum from every city in the kingdom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They’re facing some angry attention from certain reactionaries, and possibly losing their employment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

January 25th, 2010 at 6: 44 pm tombaker says: cg – only if bad, long-term reactionaries and radicals prevail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The contradictions between the people and the reactionaries is a class struggle. ❋ Abhay N (2006)

From the start Travis realized that he could not hope to commit the clan to any set plan, that even to get this scouting party to come against the stubborn resistance of Deklay and his reactionaries was a major achievement. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

In the first place, the Soviet government does not pretend to believe that the reactionaries should be allowed to control the press, that a handful of capitalists should make public opinion. ❋ Unknown (1918)

In answer it is asserted that President Taft declared the Payne-Aldrich tariff law to be the best ever passed upon the subject, and that his advisers and supporters in all of the congressional contests over vital measures were the senators and representatives known as reactionaries or standpatters. ❋ Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1880)

And this dominant ideology has proved very hard to question; those who question it are so easily labelled reactionaries, prudes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is a letter which I am now going to read a few paragraphs from because it is quite interesting and it shows us how these war criminals have teemed up with the big landowners and the embassies and the reactionaries, that is, with the traitors; we will see how they are manipulating this whole thing; these documents are very valuable because they tell us a lot about what these people have in mind; and there is no doubt that all of these documents are absolutely authentic. ❋ Unknown (1960)

Its a bit rich of Roland spouting about "reactionaries" when he supports Hamas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The recent protests all over Tibet have not only contradicted but also shattered the People Republic of China's propaganda that except for a few "reactionaries", the majority of Tibetans enjoy a prosperous and contented life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So let Alan Wolfe count me in on his list of "reactionaries," for it's a fact that Wolfe's position, which pretends to defend "the best" in Americans, horrifies and shames me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "reactionaries" are the "reactionary landholders, industrialists, and bankers"16 who used the Army "above all to defend their social and economic interests." ❋ Unknown (2008)