Reform Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member…

— Jane Porter

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have…

— Thomas Adams

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

— Walter Lippmann

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all…

— William S. Burroughs

“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

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the…

— Horace Mann

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

— Margaret Thatcher

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

— Gautama Buddha

Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.

— Charlie Baker

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

— Dick Morris