Careless Quote by Wendell Phillips

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Lydia M. Child

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous…

— Charles Hodge

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son…

— Henry David Thoreau

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The sacramental system of the Reformers flowed quite logically from their false idea of justification. If justification really consisted in a merely extrinsic appli…

— Joseph Pohle

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

— E. W. Howe

It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Loren D. Estleman Gas City

Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the…

— Andrew Solomon

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— John W. Gardner