Reform

Reform

Reform means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The use of the word in this way emerges in the late 1700’s and is believed to originate from Christopher Wyvill’s Association movement which identified “Parliamentary Reform” as its primary aim.

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Famous quotes containing the word reform:

    “The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)