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
If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge. – Mother Teresa
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
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. – Mort Sahl
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 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
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
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
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. – Walter Lippmann
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. – Susan B. Anthony
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
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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