“ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. Henry David Thoreau
“ An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what. Thomas B. Read
“ Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense. But how do you know… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ 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. Terry Pratchett
“ We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution. T. S. Eliot
“ I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't. Clarence S. Darrow
“ Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before. Kate Millett
“ Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions Douglass B. Reeves
“ I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em. Carl Panzram
“ Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t es… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike—injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, l… L.E. Modesitt Jr.
“ President Barack Obama and many liberal-minded commentators have been hesitant to call this Islamist ideology by its proper name. They seem to fear that both Muslim communities and the religiously int… Maajid Nawaz
