Voltaire Quotes

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

I think women need to have a lobby. I feel that women need to speak out. The first time a man hits you is one too many times and you need to do something about it. That something about it is walking out that door and seeking for help and never looking back.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.

I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.