Quotes About Reform

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Similarly, if we ever get immigration reform, it will likely be forged in a series of political compromises with no coherent principles or philosophy. I

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones.

Reformers should aim at delivering men from the temptations of sloth no less than from the temptations of ambition, avarice and the lust for power and position. Conversely, no reform which leaves the masses of the people wallowing in the slothful irresponsibility of passive obedience to authority can be counted as genuine change for the better.

Public health and social reform are the indispensable preconditions of any kind of general enlightenment

You've got to be good before you can do good - or at any rate do good without doing harm at the same time. Helping with one hand and hurting with the other - that's what the ordinary reformer does.

believe in reforming things that need to be reformed. I believe in social goods. I believe that the most stable and probably the most reasonable position on anything is probably to be found in the centre. I believe in compromise and sharing and making sure that everybody has a chance. I believe that we should listen to one another and accept that those with whom we may disagree have their own view of the good and should be respected. I believe in not insulting those from whom we differ.

Teaching is so demanding, and you get so little support. That pinch will have done Olive no harm - probably a lot of good.' 'Do you really think so?' 'Yes,' said Matthew. But then he went on, rather sadly, 'But I suppose that's not the world we live in, with all these regulations and busybodies about.' He paused. 'I think you've struck a blow for sanity. Or rather, pinched one.' She thought this very funny and laughed. 'I'm rather fed up with teaching anyway,' Elspeth said.

Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone