Reformation Quotes - Page 8

• But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Thinking, Reform, Imf

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  Jack Abbott

  School, Reform, Causes

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

  Jesse Helms

  United States, Reform, Influence

  "UNA Greater Philadelphia: U.S. Should Fund the U.N. in Full and On Time!" by Louis Bolling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2017.

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• There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

  Ezra Cornell

  Reform, Female, Habit

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• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  Zhu Rongji

  Reform, Circumstances, Courses

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• I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

  Paul Krugman

  Fun, Law, Reform

  "Going to Extreme". www.nytimes.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Country, Fighting, America

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Reform

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• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  Jim Clyburn

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

  Lindsey Graham

  Real, Choices, Reform

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• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Iraq, Reform

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• It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

  Oscar Wilde

  Needs, Prison, Prisoner

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.164, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Unqualified, Faults

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.291

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• God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

  John Milton

  Church, Doe, Firsts

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

  William Matthews

  Understanding, Progress, Steps

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• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Rome, Feet

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• The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Rising, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.85, TAN Books

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• Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Average

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.103, TAN Books

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• Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was assumed to be a fifth column in its midst... Ministers believedm with some justice, that Catholics retained an attachment to their exiled co-religionists, the princes of the House of Stuart. After the Battle of Culloden had confirmed Jacobitism's insignificance, however, government attitudes towards Catholicism began perceptibly and logically to relax.

  Linda Colley

  Attitude, Government, Attachment

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• We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Thinking, Break Through

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• Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

  Peter Slipper

  Church, Trying, Visionaries

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• What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.

  Gordon Clark

  Echoes, Rome, Age

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• I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

  Elizabeth I

  Peace, Years, Names

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• Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error and error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free inquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free inquiry been indulged at the era of the Reformation, the corruption of Christianity could not have been purged away.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Errors, Government, Giving

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