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:

    “... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

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

    “Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)