Reform Quotes

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. (Mark Twain)
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. View quote
Edmund Burke
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. View quote
John Stuart Mill
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence. View quote
Václav Klaus
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. View quote
Zhu Rongji
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Nothing is impossible in Russia but reform. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Reform, that we may preserve. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. View quote
Cass Sunstein
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. View quote
Kenzo Tange
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. View quote
Valerie Jarrett
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. View quote
Christiane Amanpour
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. (Frank Carlucci)
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. View quote
Robert McChesney
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
Reform is born of need, not pity. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis