| Author |
Quotes |
| Book of Common Prayer | Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them. |
| Clarence Darrow | At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. |
| Frank Putnam | The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. |
| George A Moore | All reformers are bachelors. |
| James Cardinal Gibbons | Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. |
| James J Walker | A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. |
| Mort Sahl | A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. |
| Rebecca Harding Davis | Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass. |
| Saki | Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. |
| Susan B Anthony | Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. |
| Susan B Anthony | Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. |
| Thomas Brackett Reed | One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. |
| Victor Hugo | To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. |
| Voltaire | Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. |
| Mark Twain | Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. |
| Mark Twain | The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good? |
| Samuel Butler | The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. |
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