Quotes with reform

  • More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
  • 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.
  • Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
  • All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
  • If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
  • Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
  • To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • John Stuart Mill A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Russell B. Long A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
    Russell B. Long
    American Democratic politician (1918 - 2003)
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  • Barack Obama After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • 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 know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Robert M. Hutchins Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Voltaire Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Elizabeth Smart Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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