Reform Quotes

“Abolitionism”

“Never came reformation in a flood.”

“My desolation does begin to make
A better life.”

“reform”

“REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.”

“The oyster-women lock'd their fish up,
And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.”

“The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.”

“The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.”

“Wikipedia: Reform”

“All zeal for a reform, that gives offence
To peace and charity, is mere pretence.”

“But 'tis the talent of our English nation,
Still to be plotting some new reformation.”

“Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.”

“A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th' thruth iv th' matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.”

“Because James II had attempted to destroy the institutions of the country, it long remained impossible for anyone else to attempt their reform.”

“But he was an altered man, and he could not bear the thought of returning to a place where his repentance would be scoffed at, and his reformation disbelieved.”

“And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.”

“The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.”

“The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks—especially with cranks…. Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.”

“In dialectics, we know everything contains positive and negative attributes. Reforms can be used to advance Revolution or to forestall Revolution. Dialectics inform us that when the negative dominates the positive in reform it becomes an obstacle on the road to freedom; it must give way to Revolution.”

“He bought a Bible of the new translation,
And in his life he show'd great reformation;
He walkèd mannerly and talked meekly;
He heard three lectures and two sermons weekly;
He vow'd to shun all companions unruly,
And in his speech he used no oath but "truly;"
And zealously to keep the Sabbath's rest.”