Circumstances Quote by Bashar al-Assad

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Joshua Reynolds

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

— James Gibbons

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

— George Santayana

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

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

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

— Chuck Grassley

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

— Pete Laney

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that…

— Carl Panzram