“ Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our tim… John Brockman
“ The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down. Ben Elton
“ My dear countrymen, I hope that you will live to see the day when you learn to believe in other gods than a few movie whores and a couple of prize-fighters. Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
“ Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of being on the correct side of the front lines. Ten or twelve years later (around the time of our story) t… Milan Kundera
“ Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights. Emile Zola
“ Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. Nicolás Gómez Dávila
“ Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong! Emile Zola
“ We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most p… Will Durant
“ London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reac… Nick Cohen
