Reform Quotes

963 Reform quotes by 688 unique authors

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate… — Leonard Boswell
Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to… — Kristi Noem
As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform. — Wen Jiabao
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world. — Moliere
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. — Samuel Smiles
The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism.… — William Anthony Donohue
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant… — John Ray
Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone,… — Marcia Angell
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that… — Morris West
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up. — E. W. Howe
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is… — Henry David Thoreau
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. — William Hazlitt
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose… — Jean Giraudoux
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform. — Richard Lamm
I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it. — Gore Vidal
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. — Norman Douglas
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too… — Rebecca West
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian… — Clara Zetkin
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform! — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. — Confucius

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