The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice,… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others. — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot… — A. Powell Davies Copy Share Image
We are the reformers. Reform ends if we leave, not just for us but also our friends in Europe who want our… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as “human… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“These self-styled reformers in the present-day Muslim countries may be recognized by their pride in what they should rather be ashamed of,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image