The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.
~ Russell Kirk
Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.
~ Deng Xiaoping
Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.
~ Peter Singer
How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?
~ Debasish Mridha M.d.
If you conform, you can never reform.
~ Debasish Mridha
Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.
~ Kate Millett
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.
~ Carl Panzram
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
~ Anthony Burgess
There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
~ Douglass B. Reeves
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
~ Terry Pratchett
Those born of God are called to reform their country, for that reason Christians need to have a victorious mentality
~ Sunday Adelaja
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
~ Edmund Burke
Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
All reformers are bachelors.
~ George Moore
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
~ Eric Hoffer
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
~ Alexis De Tocqueville
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.
~ Mariano Azuela
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.
~ Aristotle
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
~ Margaret Mead
Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
~ Daniel O'connell
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~ Lewis Mumford
One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.
~ Will Rogers
A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
~ James J. Walker
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
~ Richard S. Childs
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
~ T. S. Eliot
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
~ William Hazlitt
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
~ Oscar Wilde
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
~ Andrei Voznesensky
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
~ Martin Luther King
