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Quotes of the Day for 31 October 2004 - Reform

There was a time when everybody went to church on All Saints Day, the first of November. Because of the expected crowds, it was the night before that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenburg castle chapel on this day in 1517, which started the Protestant Reformation. Today, the most welcome reform would be a touch of honesty and good manners in the political campaigns, with perhaps a ration of additional intelligence for the commentators who preside over this melee.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
     - Alan Stewart Paton, 1903 - 1988

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
     - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 - 2001

A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
     - Finley Peter Dunne, 1867 - 1936

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.
     - George Santayana, 1863 - 1921

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
     - John B. S. Haldane, 1892 - 1964

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

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