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 way to reform has always led through prison.”
    —Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)

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

    “He reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shot-gun, maybe, but he didn’t know no other way.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)