Reform Quotes

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return t...

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd ...

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off foreve...

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderat...

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the s...

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Big Brother is watching you.

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the o...

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honou...

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as an...

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and ...

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and ...

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible...

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not ...

Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today...

We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the mo...

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No disc...

Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve...

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the mo...

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for peo...

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political w...