Reform

The oyster-women lock'd their fish up,And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.

— Reform

But he was an altered man, and he could not bear the thought of returning to a place where his repentance would be scoffed at, and his reformation disbelieved.

— Reform

A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th' thruth iv th' matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.

— Reform

Contemporary man has begun to lose his naiveté as ... the deep causes of the situation in which he finds himself are becoming clearer. He realizes that to attack these deep causes is the indispensable prerequisite for radical change. And so he has gradually abandoned a simple reformist attitude regarding the existing social order, for, by its very shallowness this reformism perpetuates the existing system.

— Reform

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

— Reform

My desolation does begin to makeA better life.

— Reform

And like bright metal on a sullen ground,Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

— Reform

Never came reformation in a flood.

— Reform

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

— Reform

Because James II had attempted to destroy the institutions of the country, it long remained impossible for anyone else to attempt their reform.

— Reform

Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.

— Reform

All zeal for a reform, that gives offenceTo peace and charity, is mere pretence.

— Reform

But 'tis the talent of our English nation,Still to be plotting some new reformation.

— Reform

He bought a Bible of the new translation,And zealously to keep the Sabbath's rest.

— Reform

The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks—especially with cranks…. Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

— Reform