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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.
The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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.
Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.
I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.
Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
change was coming
The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.
If you conform, you can never reform.
He who reforms, God assists.
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
297. We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles
Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.
We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament
Renunciation of many good things is needed to break our bondage to the fragmenting forces of our society, which most of us have internalized, as if busyness on many fronts were a virtue instead of a vice.
Revise. Revisit. Reinvent.
A reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.
Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal
not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.
The best reformers the world has ever seen
are those who commence on themselves.
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.
Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society ... What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
True repentance always involves reform.
Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions
We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.
Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.
We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of 'revolution'.
Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.
Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Change is threatening to the status quo.
A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy
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.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
Change is crucial. It brings new thought; new thought leads to innovative actions.
I am The Catalyst of Change
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its roots.
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
I believe the only way to reform people is to kill them
The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.
Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight ... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
We must bend with change, or we will break.
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
Before change can be managed, it has to be sparked.
In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
people change and promises are broken
While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.
They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
Change comes, even in the face of overwhelming odds. And the recognition of the changes we have already made, of what we have won, inspires us to fight even harder. When
It is the time to move ahead and bring the change
I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
The time for change is now.
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.
Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.
There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish.
To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward - revolutionary and transforming - and that requires extra factors that were not present before.
Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform.