Reformers Quotes

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The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

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.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.

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

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

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

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

As a matter of fact, it's in our interests that we help reformers across the Middle East achieve their objectives. This is the fundamental challenge of the 21st century.

A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.

The fundamental question facing Iraq government is whether or not we will stand with reformers across the region. It's really the task. And we're going to stand with this government.