Reformers Quotes

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Derrick A. Bell

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Thomas Jefferson

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized with a mixture of politics, human organization, and hierarchy.

Henry Hon