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• The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Unique, Opportunity

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.54, The New Press

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• The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Art, Real, Philosophy

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Change, Order, Law

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• We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

  George Bernard Shaw

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “A Treatise on Parents and Children”, p.118, 1st World Publishing

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• You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

  Saul Bellow

  Reading, Eye, Two

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• The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Names, Century

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.294

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• When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Faithful, President

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Ambition, Men

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.76

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• The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Book, School

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.

  Evan Esar

  Husband, Trying, Honeymoon

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• Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

  Horace Mann

  Should Have, Opposites, Race

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

  Horace Mann

  Sage, Young, Scales

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.28

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• Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Revolution, Prejudice

  Immanuel Kant (1983). “Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals”, p.42, Hackett Publishing

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• For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

  Barbara Tuchman

  People, Relief, Extortion

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.327, Random House

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• Reform is not a one-night stand.

  John Bolton

  Night, One Night Stand, One Night

  John Bolton (2008). “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.

  Norbert Wiener

  Confusion, Community, Mind

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.110, Da Capo Press

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• Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

  Austin O'Malley

  Vehement, Pairs, Clotheslines

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• The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Eye, Two, Design

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 16, 1792.

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• There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, Long, Office

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 14, 1879.

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• Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.

  Philip K. Howard

  Rights, Liberty, Democracy

  Philip K. Howard (2011). “The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America”, p.171, Random House

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• Truth reforms as well as informs.

  William Jenkyn

  Wells

  William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.230

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• Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Powerful, Men, Expression

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

  Oscar Wilde

  Russia, Fool, Impossible

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Make Others Happy, Life Is Hard, Want

  Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.266, The Floating Press

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• The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Men, Vacation

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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