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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

3.2 · 48 votes · 189 reads

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

4.1 · 28 votes · 109 reads

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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsa

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

3.7 · 53 votes

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If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal

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Teresa of Calcutta

MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

5.0 · 26 votes · 150 reads

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

3.8 · 48 votes · 194 reads

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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

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Louisa May Alcott

AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

3.3 · 40 votes · 118 reads

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.5 · 61 votes

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

4.1 · 58 votes · 164 reads

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Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly c
Aldous Huxley
AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century
3.6 · 10 votes · 173 reads
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
Alexis de Tocqueville
PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century
3.3 · 55 votes · 93 reads
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.3 · 55 votes · 57 reads
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Thomas Alva Edison
ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century
4.5 · 24 votes · 19 reads
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.5 · 12 votes · 50 reads
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