Reform

(31 votes)   A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.

Mayor Jimmy Walker
American Politician

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(208 votes)   Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Susan B. Anthony
1820-1906, American Social Reformer and Women's Suffrage Leader

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(176 votes)   People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

Norman Douglas
1868-1952, British Author

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(170 votes)   Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(144 votes)   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
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(143 votes)   Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(124 votes)   I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(118 votes)   If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(113 votes)   The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(110 votes)   I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(105 votes)   Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

EugFne Delacroix
1798-1863, French Artist

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(93 votes)   Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(88 votes)   Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(86 votes)   Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

Rebecca West
1892-1983, British Author

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(82 votes)   You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William E. Gladstone
1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman

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