161 Quotes About Reform

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. Otherwise you will be wise historically, a fool in practice.

To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.

Revolutionists amke a reform, Conservatives only conserve the reform. They never reform the reform, which is often very much wanted.

My life is too short to focus on legislation when I could be making art. So I'm not a copyright reformer, I'm a copyright abolitionist.

Hundred people enter more easily than a giant. A big reform passes less than a hundred of small. (Cent gens entrent mieux qu'un géant. - Une grosse réforme passe moins que cent.)

Fakat yüksek aydınlanma'nın en kilit figürleri radikaller değil, reformculardır. Gücü elinde tutanlara fikirlerini belirtmek onlar için doğal bir şeydir.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.