Reform Quotes - Page 23

• The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Obsolete

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

  Jerry Weller

  Illinois, Agriculture, Important

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• Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

  Butch Otter

  Healthcare Reform, Pushing Through, Usa

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• Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

  Newt Gingrich

  Judgement, Input, Taxes

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• The best social reform program in the world is a job.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, World, Social

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• The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Critical Moments, Firsts

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.214, Courier Corporation

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• I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Spiritual, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Attitude, Practice, Community

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• Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

  Peter Drucker

  Customers, Paid

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.236, Routledge

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

  Karl Marx

  Strong, Weakness, Social

  Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

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• Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Social Reform, Social

  Ramana (Maharshi.), Paul Brunton, Mungala Venkataramiah (1984). “Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi”

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• In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

  Charles Edison

  Past, Views, Promise

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• Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

  Malcolm X

  Government, People, Connections

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• We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Hard Work, Law, People

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• We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

  Nikola Tesla

  Spring, Character, Roots

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Yield, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Messages, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.231, Advaita Ashrama

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• A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, Want, Higher

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• Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Running, Risk, Fundamentals

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• It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

  Moliere

  Society, Trying, World

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• When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.

  Xu Zhiyong

  People, Revolution

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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  David Von Drehle

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own... Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that's not how - that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions. Thats not how our Constitution is written.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Book, Law

  President Barack Obama's remarks to the National Council of La Raza, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 25, 2011.

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• On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  Van Jones

  Lying, Fighting, Past

  "Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2009.

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