Best Reformers Quotes

48 Reformers quotes by 42 unique authors

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
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. — James Russell Lowell
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. — Elbert Hubbard
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own… — William Irwin Thompson
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of… — Josiah Warren
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude,… — Charles Hodge
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. — Jerry Rubin
Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's… — John McCain
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but… — Theodore Roosevelt
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have… — James Surowiecki
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy… — Doris Lessing
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people… — Sinclair Lewis
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower… — John T. Walton
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have… — Thomas Frank
Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves — George Bernard Shaw
The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the other scapegoats which… — George Bernard Shaw

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