Top Reform Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Reform quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Elizabeth Smart
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
- Elizabeth Smart
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Image of John Mica
Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
- John Mica
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Image of Diane Ravitch
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
- Diane Ravitch
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Image of Deng Xiaoping
Reform is Chinas second revolution.
- Deng Xiaoping
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Image of Lu Xun
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.
- Lu Xun
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Image of Steven Morrissey
I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.
- Steven Morrissey
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Image of Belva Ann Lockwood
Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.
- Belva Ann Lockwood
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Image of William Jenkyn
Truth reforms as well as informs.
- William Jenkyn
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Image of Peter of Alcantara
Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.
- Peter of Alcantara
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Image of George H. W. Bush
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
- George H. W. Bush
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Image of Amelia B. Edwards
Every reformation ruins somebody.
- Amelia B. Edwards
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Image of Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
- Sophie Swetchine
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Image of Philippe Couillard
You can't stop a reform in the middle. You do it completely and pretty fast, or you don't do it.
- Philippe Couillard
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Image of Henry Simmons
Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings.
- Henry Simmons
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Image of Roscoe Conkling
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.
- Roscoe Conkling
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Image of Dean Spade
In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform strategies encourage us to valorize harmful systems that our movements should be seeking to dismantle.
- Dean Spade
Collection: Reform
Image of Aja Monet
I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution
- Aja Monet
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Image of Michael J. Schmoker
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.
- Michael J. Schmoker
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Image of Matt Welch
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.
- Matt Welch
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Image of Janio Quadros
Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.
- Janio Quadros
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Image of Sylvia Poggioli
[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.
- Sylvia Poggioli
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Image of Ignatius of Loyola
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
- Ignatius of Loyola
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Image of Catherine E. Pugh
We`re looking forward to getting our monitor appointed and we`re looking forward to all of the reforms that will take place under this consent decree.
- Catherine E. Pugh
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Image of Robert Reich
We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.
- Robert Reich
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Image of Emmeline Pankhurst
...the way to reform has always led through prison.
- Emmeline Pankhurst
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Image of Charles Schumer
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.
- Charles Schumer
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of William Shakespeare
My desolation does begin to make A better life.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
I love reform better than its modes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Oscar Wilde
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Noah Webster
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.
- Noah Webster
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Image of Russell Kirk
Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
- Russell Kirk
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Image of Joshua Reynolds
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
- Joshua Reynolds
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Image of Donald Trump
Tax reform should happen rather quickly.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Donald Trump
We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Tacitus
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
- Tacitus
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Image of Alexei Navalny
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.
- Alexei Navalny
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Image of David Foster Wallace
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.
- David Foster Wallace
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Image of Frederic Bastiat
Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.
- Frederic Bastiat
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Image of David Cameron
You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.
- David Cameron
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Image of Noam Chomsky
'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.
- Noam Chomsky
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Image of Lydia M. Child
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
- Lydia M. Child
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Image of Miguel de Cervantes
He who reforms, God assists.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Image of John Lancaster Spalding
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
- John Lancaster Spalding
Collection: Reform