Reform Quotes - Page 21

Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.

We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling.

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.

I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

There is no history of how bad became better.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

I love reform better than its modes.

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

My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.