The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners. – Joseph Addison
Reforms are not just words on a page, they are actions that lead to real change.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas Brackett Reed
To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means. – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. – James J. Walker
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. – Howard Zinn
Adversity makes you realize that you are weak & must reform.
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
To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty-to the poor and humble. – Lew Wallace
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. – Rebecca Harding Davis
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. – Derrick A. Bell
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. – Lydia Maria Child
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. – Victor Hugo
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. – Voltaire
Reform lets in light through the dark curtain of ignorance and superstition. – H. S. Jacobs
My desolation does begin to make A better life. – William Shakespeare
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. – Mark Twain
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. – B. R. Ambedkar
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. – Clarence Darrow
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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