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
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
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
What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the… — William J. H. Boetcker 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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
“All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.” — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. — George Eliot 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
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
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
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
“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
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
![“[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/286/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_answers_consider-a-fence-or-gate-erected-across_1311608.jpg)
![“George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's better than his old campaign slogan: "A dumb guy with connections.” quote by David Letterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdf/david-letterman-378_campaigns_george-w-bush-has-a-new-campaign-slogan_902922.jpg)
![“Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/thomas-jefferson-43_aim_should-reformers-attempt-more-than-the-e_1810836.jpg)
