Crowds Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of 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

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

— Walter Lippmann

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

“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

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

— Gautama Buddha

“Americans tend to prefer their presidents on horseback: heroes who dream big and sound trumpets. There is, however, another kind of leader – quieter…

— Jon Meacham

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

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

— H. L. Mencken

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an…

— Walter Lippmann