Reform - Quotes

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. - Susan B. Anthony

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

Many of the great reforms of society do not come from the upper levels, but from the upheavals of the lower strata. - Lewis F. Korns

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

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. - Walter Lippmann

We talk much of reform, meaning thereby a change of mud in our mud-bath. - Abraham Miller

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. - Horace Mann