It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“At a deeper psychological level, the reformers' ideas of salvation introduced a major change in the way people saw their world. They… — Fiona MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Bible became a jewel in the hands of the Reformers not because it was a “handbook for happy living” or a… — Matthew Barrett Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Oh," I answered vaguely, "there are still reformers of all sorts in the world." "Reformers!" he cried, his face lighting up with… — Various Copy Share Image
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“All of the Reformers agreed among themselves and with Rome on the point that the Supper lies at the heart of the… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton called President Assad a "reformer". She called Assad a "different kind of leader". There's now 400,000 now dead... think about that. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by… — George Will Copy Share Image
“One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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