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QUOTES ON REFORM

Every reform was once a private opinion.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

THOMAS CARLYLE, Signs of the Times

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, preface to Misalliance


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