A Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

Swami Vivekananda

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Alone Elements Formative Impulse Live Never Only Principles Real Reforming Survive

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Swami Vivekananda
Indian - Priest
January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902

I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

Lebbeus Woods

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

Lebbeus Woods

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Peter of Alcantara

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Lawrence Reed

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

Rene Dubos

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

Li Keqiang

Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.

Denise Dresser

The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Mark Twain

I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.

Charles Kennedy

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

Barack Obama

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Mark Twain

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Lu Xun

The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.