Reformer

Examples

• At that point he had transcended the mind of the petty reformer completely. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The reformer might point to phrases like human welfare which appear in his writings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• John Wesley, being a reformer and an agitator, had a place both in her own and her husband's favour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You cannot beat the bosses with the reformer's taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For the tinkering reformer is frequently one of the worst of the routineers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But through some of the prophecies there runs already a note like the note of what we call nowadays a social reformer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At first Tiberius Gracchus was a moderate reformer of a rather reactionary type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Too passionate an absorption in public affairs is felt to be a somewhat shallow performance, and the reformer is patronized as a well-meaning but rather dull fellow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Yet Miss Addams is a reformer, and sympathy without an explicit philosophy may lead to a distorted enthusiasm. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• One of Hartlib's chief hopes for the regeneration of England, if not of the whole world, rested on the teac hings of the educational reformer Comenius, a bishop of the Moravian Brethren. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The telling point in my opinion is this: that when a wise man, a student of human nature, and a reformer met in the same person, the taboo was abandoned. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many of the German princes, and especially the Elector of Saxony, sided with the reformer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I might have been a saint, reformer, martyr,--but, alas! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• 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.

Checked by John