Reformers

Examples

• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We were reformers--revolutionists--Nihilists, you understand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To the modern reformers, the situation was the other way around. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Our so-called representative system is unrepresentative in a deeper way than the reformers who talk about the money power imagine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What Remington missed was what so many reformers are beginning to miss--an underlying philosophical habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That does not disturb the interest in them very much, for by common consent reformers are to fix their minds upon the system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That simple statement might be taken to heart by all the reformers and socialists who insist that the people are all right, that only institutions are wrong. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But what reformers have to learn is that men don't gamble just for the sake of violating the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All educational reformers, as we have had occasion to remark, are given to attacking the passivity of traditional education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Reformers must never forget that three legs are a Quixotic ideal; two good legs a genuine one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Though not all of them would accept the name, these reformers are simply utopia-makers in action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such an exercise would, I fear, involve a considerable strain on what reformers call their moral sensibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Reformers particularly resent the enlargement of political issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So the reformers of California, the Lorimerites of Chicago, and the Barnes Republicans of Albany all use the name of Lincoln for their political associations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So far he was with the petty reformers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For in them the greatest of the piecemeal reformers admitted the practical weakness of opportunist politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A group of reformers lounging at a club cannot, dare not, decide to close up another man's club because it is called a saloon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Reformers practice it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I don't like reformers, and I hope you never try to be one. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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