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Janusz Korczak 3
Polish physician and writer 1878–1942Related quotes
“The world will not reform for all your meddling.”
Et c’est une folie, à nulle autre, seconde,
De vouloir se mêler de corriger le monde.
As published in Le Misanthrope, Molière, tr. Curtis Hidden Page, G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1913), p. 12
Variant translation: Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
As contained in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p.772 : ISBN 0231071949
Act I, sc. 1, lines 155-156 (Philinte)
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Samuel Smiles
(1812–1904) Scottish author
As quoted in Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic (1987) by Timothy Travers, p. 162.
“They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.”
Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“Reform only means more conformity. It is form first that is needed.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
A Testament (1957)
“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”
John Lancaster Spalding
(1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 199
“Nations cannot be reformed without the reformation of the youth.”
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad
(1889–1965) Caliph of the Messiah
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Source: The New Canada (1992), Chapter Eight, The Founding Assembly, p. 149
“I am in my politics for reform and nothing but reform.”
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
(1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions
Source: Letter to Lady Holland, January 1822
