“ Many activists around the country have been discussing this date. ”
- Larry Holmes- Copy
- 373
“ If Bush nominates another conservative activist judge, there will be problems in the Senate. ”
- Mark Pryor- Copy
- 484
“ I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. ”
- Studs Terkel- Copy
- 452
“ Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials. ”
- Florence King- Copy
- 2K
“ A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. ”
- Jimmy Walker- Copy
- 3.8K
“ What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good? ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 2.6K
“ To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both. ”
- Elizabeth Charles- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. ”
- Lydia M. Child- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat. ”
- Mayor Jimmy Walker- Copy
- 135
“ Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order. This luke-warmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the law in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order… ”
- Niccolo Macbiavelli- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
- 973
“ The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation… most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms… ”
- Thurman W. Arnold- Copy
- 996
“ People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away… ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 125
“ For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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