to reform
Synonyms
Examples
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.