Quotes by Social Reformers - Page 2

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Henry Ward Beecher
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Henry Ward Beecher
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not the end of life character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
Henry Ward Beecher
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Henry Ward Beecher
Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.
C. H. Parkhurst
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
C. H. Parkhurst
Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Ellice Hopkins
It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
Lady Henry Somerset
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
Henry Ward Beecher
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"
Beatrice Potter Webb
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destination of the country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest and independent, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that the intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means and the use of a means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.
B.R. Ambedkar
Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B.R. Ambedkar
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B.R. Ambedkar
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B.R. Ambedkar
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B.R. Ambedkar
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
Henry Ward Beecher
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Robert Owen
Not called!' did you say?'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
William Booth
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
B.R. Ambedkar
I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.
B.R. Ambedkar
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher