Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform — (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image