Reformers Quotes

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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live… — Hector Hugh Munro
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;… — Bertrand Russell
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat… — Isaiah Berlin
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well… — Adolf Hitler
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching… — Swami Vivekananda
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare… — Elizabeth Charles
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that… — Will Durant
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of… — Thomas Jefferson
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. — George W. Bush
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human… — Walt Whitman
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs… — Russell Kirk
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a… — Bob Schaffer
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. — John Buchanan Robinson
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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