Quotes About Reform

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

It was the discomfort of knowing two people doing the same work at the same level were being paid differently that led us to reform how we set salaries. That's how we ended up throwing out individual negotiations and differences in pay, and going with a simpler system.

I'm grateful to the judge who sent me to rehab instead of prison.

After all there was good in the old ways...there was good in the new order too.

It's all stupid and narrow and unjust—but one can't make over society.

A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.

A revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

The greatest statesmen are those able at once to preserve and reform.

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

What we need is a new God. Somebody who knows what the fuck he's doing.

By this time, the Julian was already eleven days behind the Gregorian calender. But it was better to be a little late than to agree with the Pope!

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Luther's revolution had, like all great revolutions, failed. But like all great revolutions, it had created a new world.

Luther's fire caught because fuel had been quietly building up for some time. The principal fuel was desire for reform of the church.

Martin Luther was a friar as well as a professor. When a man in his position accused the church of moneygrubbing, people were ready to listen.

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 will never get completely over the memory of the bars.

Built in 1975, the Division Four unit is, like Henry Horner, made of cinder block, which jail authorities quickly learned did not provide the best of security. Because prisoners scraped through the mortar with metal spoons, the jail switched to plastic utensils in 1979. And after several inmates used the top of their dressers to beat through the walls, some in as little time as a minute and a half, the dressers were finally removed in 1981.

Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

Socialism with a human face.

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