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Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals. -- Henry David Thoreau
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure. -- E. M. Forster
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. -- Ellen Glasgow
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I. -- Henry David Thoreau
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned. -- Lord Acton
We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society! -- Margaret Case Harriman
Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England must once again bow down her fair neck to his proud usurping yoke and foot. -- Roger Williams
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment. -- William J. H. Boetcker
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. -- Charles Hodge
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. -- Jerry Rubin
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. -- John Buchanan Robinson
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. -- Adam Michnik
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. -- William Irwin Thompson
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers. -- John T. Walton
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. -- Nina Easton
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. -- Alfred Marshall
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko. -- Bob Schaffer
Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools. -- Chris Gabrieli
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. -- Thomas Frank
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high. -- James Surowiecki
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers. -- Josiah Warren
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. -- James Russell Lowell
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. -- George Bernard Shaw
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. -- Henry David Thoreau
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. -- Margaret Deland
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. -- George Eliot
We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ron Suskind
Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others. -- Charles I of England
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. -- John W. Gardner
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. -- Emma Goldman
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. -- Frank Herbert
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. -- Elbert Hubbard
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act. -- Florence Nightingale
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. -- George Will
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists. -- Rheta Childe Dorr
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. -- George W. Bush
Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice. -- Andrew Lam
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature. -- William Graham Sumner
Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers. -- George Packer
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No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers. -- Gore Vidal
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. -- Walt Whitman
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. -- Grant Morrison
Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer. -- John McCain
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. -- Hector Hugh Munro
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner. -- Adolf Hitler
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power. -- Isabel Paterson
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society. -- Mother Jones
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools. -- Peter Medawar
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. -- Ambrose Bierce
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress. -- Henry Hazlitt
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers. -- Elizabeth Charles
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. -- Doris Lessing
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has! -- Honore de Balzac

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