161 Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“What's good for reform is bad for the reformers”

— Loren D. Estleman Gas City

“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his…

— Fernando Pessoa

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

— Lydia M. Child

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human…

— William Graham Sumner

A great social reformer.

— George Bernard Shaw

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

— E. W. Howe

“Oh," I answered vaguely, "there are still reformers of all sorts in the world." "Reformers!" he cried, his face lighting up with a new…

— Various

“The only cure for all social ills in our world today is the discovery and creation of more and more ordinary everyday heroes.”

— Jeroninio Almeida

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

— George Bernard Shaw

The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould