Quotes About Reform

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

people should be able to see our justice system at work, not least because individual cases can bring to light widespread social problems. Media

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

It is true that some public defenders are good lawyers and want to be effective advocates, but the institution is structured, so as to discourage their efforts.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

And white women can reform nothing until and unless they are willing to relinquish their caste privilege, those codes of racial and social superiority they extol in their men and instill in their children.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform. No one may affirm that such a

What school worries about the kind of civilization the children are forced to live in? The only thing officialdom is bothered about is whether or not the syllabus has been followed.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

The U.S. penal system has a strong tendency to "level down". The much-heralded "liberal" features of American political culture ironically have helped to render the U.S. penal system harsher, more degrading, and less forgiving as it extends a brute egalitarianism across the board.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.