Quotes by Reform No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood. H. P. Lovecraft reform analysis lonely One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances. Harriet Beecher Stowe males reform house Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle Heinrich Heine turtles reform soup The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. Henry Adams reform party hands The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds. George W. Bush benefits reform reality The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession Henry Adams details reform taken Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings. Henry Simmons reform saving would-be Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man. Henry David Thoreau journalism reform men Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable. Herb Kohl reform drug needs He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved. Henry A. Kissinger reform alternatives democracy Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. Henry David Thoreau reform needed faith Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. Horace Mann sage reform young True repentance always involves reform. Hosea Ballou true-repentance repentance reform True repentance also involves reform. Hosea Ballou true-repentance repentance reform The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules. Henry David Thoreau atmosphere reform advice After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair. Iain Duncan Smith welfare reform years I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform. Hillary Clinton criminals reform justice He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor. Ignatius of Loyola reform labor world We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. Henry David Thoreau reform imagination should Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass. Immanuel Kant reform revolution thinking «678910111213141516»