Quotes by Reform Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform. J. B. Jackson restoration rejection reform Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated. J. Christopher Herold reform queens principles Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. Jack Abbott reform causes school It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. Isaac Asimov reform research past There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating. Jack Kemp debate thoughtful reform I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship. Hillary Clinton reform immigration fighting If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world. Henry David Thoreau reform pain men I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A. Hillary Clinton congress reform trying Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over. Jaime Herrera Beutler starting-over reform care We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history. Henry David Thoreau common-sense reform history There is no history of how bad became better. Henry David Thoreau progress reform history In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform. Hillary Clinton reform borders america We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling. Hillary Clinton deportation reform immigration I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. James Fallows patents reform giants Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. James Gibbons diversity reform justice It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump. Henry David Thoreau progress reform important There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders. Henry David Thoreau morality reform use Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Henry David Thoreau reform effort sleep To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left. Henry David Thoreau reform health speak We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many. Henry David Thoreau progress reform men «7891011121314151617»