John Edwards Quotes

Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

The period of radical reform is finished.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

For politics to change … culture must change too --- and that takes much more than dispatching troops, holding elections, and writing constitutions.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Revolution, not elections!

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

You don't change the course of the country in twenty-four hours.

We are making our revolution slowly and by constitutional methods.

Correcting what has been for centuries a condition of absolute chaos is not the work of short-winded people.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.