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
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
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
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
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
I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
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
“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 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
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 majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so… — Dick Morris 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
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
“All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.” — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
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