Reform Quotes

963 Reform quotes by 688 unique authors

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly… — C.S. Lewis
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle… — Anatole France
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms.… — Adam Selzer
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember,… — Loretta Chase
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -… — David Foster Wallace
You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for… — Sarah MacLean
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our… — Winifred Holtby
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. — Derrick Bell
The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an… — Brigham Young
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary. — Ernest Hemingway
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's… — George MacDonald
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case,… — Michael Polanyi
They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement. — Frantz Fanon
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own… — William Hazlitt
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction. — Gary L. Francione
Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it. — Lauren Kate
The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul,… — J I Packer
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to… — Lauren Kate
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot… — Baruch Spinoza
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does… — Mark Levin
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. — George W. Bush

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