Begets Quote by Horace Mann

Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

— Robert Fritz

Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the…

— John Daly

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

— John W. Gardner

“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

...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes,…

— J. Stalin

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

— Tom Peters

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and…

— Aristotle

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 spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

— John Stuart Mill

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but…

— Victor Hugo

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so…

— Saul Alinsky

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

— Anonymous