James Ash Quotes

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Reform that you may preserve.

I am a friend to the reformation generally of whatever can be made better

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

We have to change.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The way to promote an idea is to put the word reform at the end of it.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

There are changes in the works.