Quotes About Reform

Power goes to those who end the revolution. Not the one who starts it.

lawmakers are often lawyers themselves, notoriously bereft of ideas.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.

Religion can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

We need a new religion.

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

That which is above all to be shunned," said the philosopher, "is the encroachment of discouragement, the result of repeated failures. "Rare are those who wish to admit their mistakes. "In the structure of the mind, inaccuracy brings a partial deviation from the truth, and it does not take long for this slight error to generalize itself, if not corrected by its natural reformer — common sense.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

People think that this political revolution or that social reform will make them happy, but their biochemistry tricks them time and again.

Dayananda's contemporary, Pope Pius IX, had much more conservative views about women, but shared Dayananda's admiration for superhuman authority. Pius led a series of reforms in Catholic dogma and established the novel principle of papal infallibility, according to which the Pope can never err in matters of faith (this seemingly medieval idea became binding Catholic dogma only in 1870, eleven years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species).

It starts with campaign finance reform.