Reform Quotes

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

James J. Walker

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

Richard S. Childs

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

T.S Eliot

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

William Hazlitt

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Andrei Voznesensky

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Martin Luther King

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Nikita Khrushchev

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

Big Brother is watching you.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All reformers are bachelors.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Aristotle

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

Daniel O'Connell

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

Anonymous

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.

Clarence S. Darrow

We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

James Cardinal Gibbons

To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

Michel Montaigne

An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

James J. Walker

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

Richard S. Childs

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

T.S Eliot

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

William Hazlitt

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Andrei Voznesensky

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Martin Luther King

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Nikita Khrushchev

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

Big Brother is watching you.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All reformers are bachelors.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.

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