Reform Quotes - Page 35

• Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

  Karl Kraus

  Cancer, Decision, Suffering

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Responsibility, Giving, Agitation

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Attitude, Heart

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.

  Richard Louv

  Change, Dream, Mean

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• The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Men

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• ...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

  Feminist, Feminism, Kind

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Simple, Class, Justice

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• There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

  Josh Earnest

  Thinking, Usa, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Law, Able

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

  Warren Beatty

  Years, Ideas, Oil

  Interview with R. Couri Hay, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Reality, Government, People

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• On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track. ... They would have you believe that if they get into office, they are going to make sure that they are going to get rid of everyone in our society who was not born in America.

  Maxine Waters

  Believe, America, Office

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• We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

  Henry David Thoreau

  History, Common Sense, Return

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

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• There is no history of how bad became better.

  Henry David Thoreau

  History, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Done, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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• ..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

  James Lee Burke

  Drinking, Believe, School

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• Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Crazy, Safety, Growth

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• We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Imagination, Should, Endeavor

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.49

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• A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Doe, May

  "The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1990.

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• Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Choices, Made, Used

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• If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

  Frances Farenthold

  Country, Writing, Campaigns

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Campaigns, Magazines, Speech

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• Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Money, Cheer, School

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• Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Army, Men

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• He who reforms, God assists.

  Miguel de Cervantes

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