Reformers Quotes

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.”
― Derrick Bell, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

“One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Of all such reformers Mr. Sentiment is the most powerful. It is incredible the number of evil practices he has put down: it is to be feared he will soon lack subjects and that when he has made the working classes comfortable, and got bitter beer put into proper-sized pint bottles, there will be nothing further for him left to do. Mr. Sentiment is certainly a very powerful man, and perhaps not the less so that his good poor people are so very good; his hard rich people so very hard; and the genuinely honest so very honest. Namby-pamby in these days is not thrown away if it be introduced in the proper quarters. Divine peeresses are no longer interesting, though possessed of every virtue; but a pattern peasant or an immaculate manufacturing hero may talk as much twaddle as one of Mrs. Ratcliffe's heroines, and still be listened to. Perhaps, however, Mr. Sentiment's great attraction is in his second-rate characters. If his heroes and heroines walk upon stilts as heroes and heroines, I fear, ever must, their attendant satellites are as natural as though one met them in the street: they walk and talk like men and women, and live among our friends a rattling, lively life — yes, live, and will live till the names of their callings shall be forgotten in their own, and Buckett and Mrs. Gamp will be the only words left to us to signify detective police officer or a monthly nurse.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

“To divide life into areas of sacred and secular, letting our devotions take care of the former while becoming secular reformers during the week, is to fail to understand the true end of man”
― Henry R. Van Til

“When what makes other people sleep keeps you awake every night, it is a sign that you are called into the assignment of a revivalists, reformers and change agents.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.”
― Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized with a mixture of politics, human organization, and hierarchy.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

“The reformer’s striving attempts that brought the Fire to the world was resisted and put to suffer,like Prometheus,while Zeus ceased him to capture his spirits of eternally replenished liver.”
― Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule

“Bold and humanizing ideas need no supernatural nonsense to manifest in the world, they always manage to find mortal vessels to exist across time. Individuals die, not ideas.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto

“Either I'll lift the world or perish in the attempt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“You know who you are - you are the heroes of Naskar - you are the knights of Naskar - you have no relation with segregation - you have no attachment to bigotry - you have no allegiance to any ideology - the only allegiance that you have is not to me, not to any scripture, not to any school of thought, but to the humankind and humankind alone. You are neither believers, nor nonbelievers, you are neither left, nor right, you are neither intellectual, nor ignorant, you are the whole human beings that the world so desperately needs - you are my order of new humans - humans beyond borders, humans beyond scriptures, humans beyond applause and mockery, beyond wealth and status, beyond anonymity and popularity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent

“I have no desire to leave biological descendants, all I care about is to leave descendants who are related to me, not by blood, but by a common sense of responsibility towards the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Reform starts with radicals.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Contemporary reformers often forget to preach about the cross. Even when they mention the cross, it is done too softly, and their preaching is not based on the cross of the Lord.”
― Brother Pedro