Reform Quotes

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

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.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

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.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.