Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

Chicago ain’t ready for reform!

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

The period of radical reform is finished.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.

No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.

My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.