The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes — George Soros Copy Share Image
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all… — John McCain Copy Share Image
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are… — Doris Lessing 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
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong. Hitting the reset button with Vladimir Putin - recall that she called Bashar… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social… — William Booth Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — 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
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image