Quotes About Reform

The only ones worse off than us is borstal boys. Or those boys that get sent to public school, because if you think about it, them schools are really just posh borstal.

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.

Since he had figured out every conceivable way to restrain trade, rig markets, and suppress competition, all reform-minded legislators had to do was study his career to draw up a comprehensive antitrust agenda.

Hamilton believed that revolutions ended in tyranny because they glorified revolution as a permanent state of mind. A spirit of compromise and a concern with order were needed to balance the quest for liberty.

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Big Cabinet meeting on our program through Justice dept. to wipe out legal discriminations against women. We've changed 27 laws, have 60 more in process & today approved some more.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

The reform that is needed is not anti-capitalist, anti-American, or even deep environmentalist; it is simply the transition from short-term to long-term thinking.

Social reform held a sacred quality for the women involved; it equaled practical Christianity, the living out of the ethics of Jesus. Most reformers saw Christianity as the foundation of, not an impediment to, their work. Some also felt led to critique the church so that its message and its practice would be brought more closely together.

The World-Rectifying Catfish targeted the business class, the 1 percent, whose rampant practices of price-fixing, hoarding, and graft had led to economic stagnation and political corruption.

If anything is to be done, one must try to introduce Christianity into Christendom.

We can't say, Listen, you barbarians: These holy books of yours are filled with murderous nonsense. In the interest of getting you to behave like civilized human beings, we're going to redact them and give you back something that reads like Kahlil Gibran. There you go ... Don't you feel better now that you no longer hate homosexuals?" However, that's really what one should be able to do in any intellectual tradition in the twenty-first century.

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.