Consequence Quote by John W. Gardner

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

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

— Loren D. Estleman Gas City

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

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Anonymous

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a…

— Samantha Power

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Lydia M. Child

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging…

— Margaret Case Harriman