Quotes About Reform

Los manifestantes pueden causar un gran impacto, pero al final son los gobiernos los que remodelan el mundo.

It's our responsibility to make politics less rough—more honest, more rational, less violent. If we do not do that, we fail in our patriotic duty.

There had to be order. Grigori did not want to go back to the old days, of course. The tsar had given them bread queues, brutal police, and soldiers without boots. But there had to be freedom without chaos.

Obsolete uniforms are a sure sign of an institution in need of reform." Dave

Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.

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There are no saints in politics. But imperfect people can still change the world for the better.

That was the plan. Now for the new plan.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

Con todo, no soy de los que creen que la justicia consista en castigos y en prisiones. Nadie ha demostrado nunca que la cárcel haga mejores a los seres humanos, y quien aspire a la justicia debe saber que la única justicia de verdad efectiva es la que no representa una venganza, que llega después de los hechos para castigar, sino la que previene los males y se esfuerza por impedir que los hechos injustos ocurran.