Reformer Quotes
45 quotes by 40 authors
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies…
— B R Ambedkar
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…
— Henry Miller
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is…
— Freya Stark
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For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics,…
— Adolf Hitler
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the…
— Henry Ford
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I…
— Rod Blagojevich
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Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
— E. W. Howe
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Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer…
— Ellen Key
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Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
— Ernestine Rose
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A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
— Jose Bergamin
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History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not…
— John Buchan
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
— Lydia M. Child
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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly…
— Aleister Crowley
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I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out…
— Swami Vivekananda
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
— Learned Hand
Who Wrote These Reformer Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 45 Reformer Quotes, led by these top contributors: