Desire Quote by Aristotle

“Nothing is more difficult than to equalize the action of the government in reference to the various and diversified interests of the community; and…

— John C. Calhoun

“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment towards private…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to…

— Lew Wallace

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor…

— George Santayana

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

— Joshua Reynolds

“Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary…

— Gloria Steinem

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

— Tom Peters

“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the…

— Karl Marx

When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.

— Hilaire Belloc

“Historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable…

— David Hume