Quotes About Reform

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

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For many Germans, the reduction of unemployment, the construction of the autobahns, and social policy measures merged to form a picture of something being done for the little guy.

Fifth, while the current mood, reflected in the Dodd-Frank Act, is to limit the LLR's powers, the right response is to increase them while subjecting the LLR to equal-treatment principles that restrict favoritism.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

In our country, there is so much that's wrong with the way we deliver care to the aging, the very young, and the infirm. But you can't beat something with nothing. It is not enough to decry what's broken. You have to describe the alternative and make it possible for people to believe in it. To care.

It wouldn't be entirely clear to him until 1787, but in the meantime, as a first step in the right direction, Wilberforce championed two bills, both of which failed. One was for parliamentary reform and the other was a strange and ghoulish bill combining two macabre issues: putting an end to the burning of women at the stake, and selling the corpses of hanged criminals for dissection.

Indeed, not just the problems but the loud cry "Reform!" had been heard here and there for centuries before Luther.

Müntzer, like all utopianists, was divorced from reality and wished to be so divorced, thinking the reality of this world as something to be fled as soon as possible. All political and religious reform movements are tempted in the direction of cultishness and violence, and at the time of Luther, Müntzer was the one who led this charge over the cliff.

the suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners.

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

our current educational system was designed in the era of mass production and uses large batches extensively.

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

Wer will, dass die Welt so bleibt, wie sie ist, der will nicht, dass sie bleibt.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed