Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand 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
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
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
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert 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
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he… — Peter Kenyon 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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