Definition of Reactionary

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Definition of Reactionary
	Reactionary Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements. One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution. Related Definitions: As, Being, Causing, Favoring, One, Or, Political, Progress, Reaction, Reactionary, Revolution, To, Undo, Who

Reactionary Quotations

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.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson

All adventure is now reactionary.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
Mikhail Bakunin

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
Kim Jong Il

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

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Robert Conquest

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

Reactionary Translations

reactionary in Dutch is reactionair
reactionary in Italian is reazionario
reactionary in Spanish is reaccionario

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