Quotes About Reform

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He never will get completely over the memory of the bars.

Das ist es, was ich an der mosaischen Religion nicht ertragen kann: ihre Weigerung und Unfähigkeit, unzählige seit Menschengedenken existierende, aber längst sinnlos gewordene Gebote und Vorschriften abzuschaffen oder zumindest zu reformieren. [...] Schon sehr früh, ich muß es unmißverständlich sagen, habe ich am Verstand jener gezweifelt, die derartige Gebote streng erfüllten.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

We thought we could do better. Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

It's time for America to get right.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.