Quotes about Reform

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

If anything is to be done, one must try to introduce Christianity into Christendom.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Listening to a sermon that does not reform your life will never save your soul.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.