A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him – Elbert Hubbard
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. – Walter Lippmann
We talk much of reform, meaning thereby a change of mud in our mud-bath. – Abraham Miller
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. – John lancaster spalding
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves – George Bernard Shaw
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. – Susan B. Anthony
Neither fire, sword, nor banishment can retard reform, but it rather hastens it forward. – Jaques Auguste De Thou
Reform is China’s second revolution. – Deng Xiaoping
All reforms are matters of the moment; fruit of any kind plucked and eaten before ripe is sure to have unpleasant effects on all sorts of stomachs, political as well as physical. – R. M. Walsh
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, – that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. – John Jay Chapman
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not – Oscar Wilde
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. – Faye Wattleton
All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. – Bryant McGill
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. – John F. Kennedy
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots – Johann Kaspar Lavater
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