161 Quotes About Reform

Owen, of course, was overlooking the fact that his fellow manufacturers were more concerned with their machines than with their workers because the former represented a heavy capital investment whereas the oversupply of unskilled presented no replacement problem. Only when industry must spend money in training its personnel do they become economically as important as machines.

Nearly all large healthcare organizations make their top executives extremely rich, a perverse incentive to profit off the sick.

The general American population is unknowingly supporting executive leaders becoming very rich off the sick and our limited healthcare dollars.

An organization's financial statement is their ethical statement. This is because what an organization spends their money on defines what's important to them.

Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Your mental make-ups are the contents of your everyday thinking; they carry a charge that can either transform, reform or destroy you. Watch your thoughts, they determine your life!

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.

But to have captivated such a man as Damerel into actually *wishing* to offer for you is a triumph indeed! For he must have mean tot reform his way of life, you know! There was never anything like it, and I don't scruple to own to you, my love that if it had been one of my daughters I should be as proud as a peacock.