Quotes About Reform

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.