To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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