Quotes About Social Reformers

#1. Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Jerry Rubin

#2. Societies accomplished important goals that still elude politicians, specialists in public policy, social reformers, and philanthropists. They successfully created vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor that are now almost entirely absent in many atomistic inner cities.

David T. Beito

#3. In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

#4. But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you - the social reformers - see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Isaiah Berlin

#5. Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.

Bobby Jones

#6. Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Emma Goldman

#7. Happiness is really about deciding to look beyond the imperfections and find beauty and joy in what is, right now.

Jeffrey A. White

#8. Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Derrick A. Bell

#9. I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Quentin Crisp

#10. If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Francis Ford Coppola

#11. I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Martin Short

#12. I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#13. There is a lot of promise in the word compromise.

Myreah Moore

#14. I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

Steve Mann

#15. A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

Don Ed Hardy

#16. I learned from my teachers but became through my music

Macklemore

#17. Knowing that home was hateful to us both, I imagined that her calling me by the word meant I was expedient, or sturdy; but if I could only keep her hand in mine, I knew I would give my four limbs and my heart for the privilege, becoming instead four walls and a roof.

Lyndsay Faye

#18. The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

Czeslaw Milosz

#19. The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence ...

Joe Lieberman

#20. All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#21. Every problem has a limited life span.

Robert H. Schuller