Quotes About Reform

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

You must change in order to survive..

There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...

If you ask most people today where the mentally ill are in our society, they will tell you they're in state mental hospitals. They're wrong. . . . They are in our jails and prisons. —Judge Steven Leifman Eleventh Judicial Circuit Miami, Florida

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have impact on our institutions.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

In the same decades that saw the rise of mass incarceration, the number of beds available in state mental hospitals across the country dropped from 339 beds per 100,000 people in 1955 to under 20 beds per 100,000 people by 2015. There are now ten times as many mentally ill people in our prisons and jails as there are in state mental institutions.

If I were king of Christianity, after limiting church services to forty-five minutes and sermons to ten, as well as outlawing church "share time" altogether, I would proclaim a kingdom-wide decree that, at least for a while until we get it, "believe" should be stricken from all of our Bibles and replaced with trust.

Fucking civil servants, always stand in the way of progress.

Most ambitiously, some feminist epistemologists have argued that even our fundamental concepts of reason, evidence, and truth are covertly sexist. Feminist epistemology also goes beyond criticism to make suggestions about reform-how to make science better at finding out about the world (if that goal is to be retained), and also how to make science more socially responsible.

The same ideas that created the problem will not be able to solve it.

Everyone, it seemed to me, ought to know about Lincoln Steffens.

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.

Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence.

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your fatherís young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your fatherís altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

So do this: Dismiss all the kings from their positions and replace them with other officers.

He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.