Best Reform Quotes

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we’re not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty–to the poor and humble.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

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

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there’s nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I’ll let him explain why.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn’t act. I’m going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

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

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren’t pedagogical. They weren’t financial. They weren’t curricular. They weren’t research. They weren’t any of the usual things we’ve always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal … we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we’re going to solve this problem.

It’s not enough to be famous. You have to be professional enough to make reform.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President’s mind.

[Castellani’s testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China’s state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.