Quotes About Reform

Religion can never reform mankind, because religion is slavery.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

As the eighteenth century went on, fewer people were actually hanged for capital crimes that they had been convicted of.

The post-2020 fiscal reckoning does not require higher payroll taxes or lower retirement benefits, as new sources of fiscal revenue are available from drug legalization, increased tax progressivity, tax reform that eliminates most tax deductions, and a carbon tax that provides incentives to reduce emissions.

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

Now you can do as I do, stand outside and criticize, bring pressure if you can, write and argue about it. All of this may do some good. But nothing of substance will happen unless there are people inside these institutions who are able to (and want to) lead them into better performance for the public good. Some of you ought to make careers inside these big institutions and become a force for good—from the inside.

If a society does not wish to change, it cannot be reformed through the educational system.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

When the Bishop of Gloucester systematically tested Church of England diocesan clergy in 1551, of 311 pastors, 171 could not repeat the Ten Commandments, and 27 did not know the author of the Lord's Prayer.

VARIOUS OTHER BANKERS—heirs to the Indianapolis convention—carried on the fight for reform. However, unlike Warburg, they favored establishing an asset currency, a decentralized scheme based on each individual bank's loans.

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

They profess to aim only at a reform of the constitution and of certain abuses in the public administration, but an abolition of debts public and private and a new division of property are strongly suspected in contemplation.

Archbold scandal pushed him toward his proper career: that of a full-time philanthropist.

In an ironic outcome unforeseen by reformers, it would become the private bank of choice for central banks throughout the world, giving it an incalculable new advantage.

By 1784, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had outlawed slavery or passed laws for its gradual extinction

In 1870 he oversaw creation of the Justice Department, its first duty to bring thousands of anti-Klan indictments. By 1872 the monster had been slain, although its spirit resurfaced as the nation retreated from Reconstruction's lofty aims. Grant presided over the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave blacks the right to vote, and landmark civil rights legislation, including the 1875 act outlawing racial discrimination in public accommodations.

But then the Hispanic guy spoke. Maybe a heartfelt statement, full of apology and contrition, full of promises of future reform, and likely polite, and certainly short, but apparently there was something in it the fat man wanted to either rebut or comment on further, because he settled back down, amid much asynchronous wobbling and shaking, and he started talking again.

Certain it is that Socrates makes very radical proposals of "reform" without encountering serious resistance. But there are also a few indications in the Republic to the effect that the longed-for reformation is not likely to succeed on the political plane or that the only possible reformation is that of the individual man.

Make a better history

I suppose it's all in how you define patriotism. Some say that's only saying good things about your country. Others say that it's speaking against what you feel is wrong with your country and trying to make a change.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?