Best Reformers Quotes
48 Reformers quotes by 42 unique authors
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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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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
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
— James Russell Lowell
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It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
— John W. Gardner
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
— Elbert Hubbard
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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
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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
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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
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Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
— Jerry Rubin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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
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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
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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
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Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
Who Wrote These Reformers Quotes
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