The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolut

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. – Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Conformity
category

Conservatism should guide; it usually paralyzes. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Conformity

To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. – Praxedis Guerrero, Regeneración, 1911 February 18th

Category:
Conformity

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. – Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

Category:
Conformity

Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien

Category:
Conformity

Random Quotes

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
Marriage

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do. – Penelope Spheeris

Category:
finance

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. – John Charles Polanyi

Category:
Science

It consisted of a half-sheet of letter-paper, folded in the fashion of those days when as yet the envelope was undiscovered… – J.C. Atkinson, “Witch Stories and Witch Antidotes,” Forty Years in a Moorland Pa

Category:
Letters