Circumstances Quote by Florence Nightingale

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they…

— Anita Roddick

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

— John W. Gardner

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

The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot…

— John Stuart Mill

To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I haven't seen any healthy ideology trying to change the world. It doesn't need to change the world; those who change the world do…

— Ilkin Santak

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

— Angela Davis

Those who genuinely want to change the world for betterment must know that transforming our own lives at the most fundamental level actually holds…

— Senora Roy

Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones…

— Peter White

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

— George Eliot