There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau 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
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
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
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he… — Edward Gibbon 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to… — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro 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
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“The history of the church seems to indicate to us two positions as true, with reference to this matter,—viz. lst, That assurance… — William Cunningham 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
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
As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton failed to mention that her agreement with a precipitous withdrawal and declaration of victory in 2011 helped left swaths of… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli 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
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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