Quotes About Reform

You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

À medida que as penas forem mais brandas, quando as prisões já não forem a horrível mansão do desespero e da fome, quando a piedade e a humanidade penetrarem nas masmorras, quando enfim os executores impiedosos dos rigores da justiça abrirem os corações à compaixão, as leis poderão contentar-se com indícios mais fracos para ordenar a prisão.

In that same year, Provenzano "buried his differences" with popular reform-minded Local 560 member Anthony "Three Fingers" Castellito by having him strangled to death and buried on a farm in upstate New York by K.O. Konigsberg, Salvatore Sinno, and Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio. Ten

And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror, including bombings, arsons, beatings, and murders. The warfare and violence were not just between labor and management. It was often between rival unions vying for the same membership. Sadly, it was often violence directed at rank-and-file union members who urged democratic reform of their unions. The

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Hundred people enter more easily than a giant. A big reform passes less than a hundred of small. (Cent gens entrent mieux qu'un géant. - Une grosse réforme passe moins que cent.)

Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

The liberal spirit is the breath of liberal democracy. And the liberal spirit is something instantly recognizable but very difficult to define. It has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo... Reform, and constant reform, is a necessity of democracy. But reform in a hurry... is jerry-built, and it blows down in the first storm.

To-morrow — the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

People do not reform after they are married. I would never marry a man to reform him!

above all, simplify the French language and abolish irregular verbs – a measure that would have rescued countless schoolchildren from the despotism of pernickety pedagogues.

The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and (most of all) religious revival; the hushed-up society where everyone is afraid to say what he thinks is on the brink of violence and collapse.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

Por ley la gestión de las cocinas (de los reclusorios) debía decidirse por concurso público. En teoría diversas empresas presupuestaban y las autoridades elegían la alternativa más eficiente. Esta versión de cuentos de hadas no se la creían ni las hadas

Si se me preguntara qué hacer para volver la política un asunto honrado no dudaría en responder: debemos eliminar a los políticos. Una

Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Las Leyes de Reforma de 1856 fueron el clímax jurídico del triunfo de aquella cúpula modernizante sobre la sociedad real. Pero la ofensiva ilustrada había cruzado todo el siglo XIX, aun antes de la Independencia, bajo el signo del pensamiento de Melchor de Jovellanos.

No hay nada más difícil de hacer, ni de resultado más incierto, ni más difícil de gobernar que la introducción de un orden nuevo de cosas porque quien lo introduce tiene como enemigos a todos los que medran del viejo orden y como aliados tibios sólo a quienes podrían medrar del nuevo…

Sólo hay un remedio democrático sólido contra la tentación populista: el desarrollo mismo, la modernización incluyente.