Cynical Quote by Loren D. Estleman Gas City Download Open image ““What's good for reform is bad for the reformers”” — Loren D. Estleman Gas City ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad Reformers Cynical Good Reform Historical Reform Reform Bad Reformers
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, a key to realising reform is to make the powerful feel the pain of the status quo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it. — Pete Laney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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