The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism. — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unilateral attempt to change the status quo by force, like Russia's aggression against Ukraine this time, should never be tolerated in Indo-Pacific. — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo - outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century.… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The American people want change. They don't want the same old health care system that's not affordable, that doesn't offer coverage to… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful;… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not… — Alfred Hermida Copy Share Image
“On television and on the front pages of the major newspapers, Trump clearly seemed to be losing the election. Each new woman… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“If one looks at a balancing scale putting “fear of change” on one side and “status quo” on the other, they are… — David W Earle Copy Share Image
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Status quo thinking is the premature rejection of deeply unfamiliar ideas; it is the enemy of originality.” — Jen Fraser Copy Share Image
“research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo… — Nicholas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
“The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure. — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, a key to realising reform is to make the powerful feel the pain of the status… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
