Bulldozers Quote by George Will

“The call to level the playing field, pushed to its logical conclusion, is a call for the systematic subversion of American individualism and democracy.…

— David Horowitz

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Loren D. Estleman Gas City

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

— Lydia M. Child

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

— Warren G. Bennis

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

— John W. Gardner

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

— George Bernard Shaw