Reform Quotes

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

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

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

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.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.