This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Personal magnetism is a mixture of rugged Honesty, pulsating Energy, and self-organized Intelligence. I believe, absolutely, that truth is the strongest and most powerful weapon a man can use, whether he is fighting for a reform or fighting for a sale.
Character | Energy | Fighting | Honesty | Intelligence | Man | Reform | Self | Truth |
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
Mostly, reform in religion is rational. But if the religion be already too rational, reform must be emotional.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Power | Reform | Revolution | Wisdom |
I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any; method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
Important | Majority | Method | Reform | Success | Wisdom | Think |
Education is not to teach men facts, theories or laws, not to reform or amuse them or make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellect, teach them to think straight, if possible, but to think nevertheless.
Education | Men | Reform | Teach | Theories | Wisdom | Think |
When reform becomes impossible, revolution becomes imperative.
Reform | Revolution | Wisdom |
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.
Every reform carries the seed of its own abuse.
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
The core problem facing our schools is a moral one. All the other problems derive from it. Even academic reform depends on putting character first.
Such negative terms as “Protestant” and “Reformation” are unhappy designations for a movement that in essence was not protest but affirmation, not reform but conservation, not reaction, but propulsion. Its best name is “evangelical.”
Conservation | Protest | Reform |