In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
“One of the causes of status quo bias is a lack of attention. Many people adopt what we will call the “yeah,… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
“Our nation today needs men and women who are bold enough to play on the field and passionate to change the status… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
Someday, man will destroy themselves, and it is perhaps just as well. Then maybe the world will experience the status quo — Mattias Konradsson Copy Share Image
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I like not living up to the expectations of people who don't like me. I enjoy knowing that my choices won't be… — Mikki Kendall Copy Share Image
If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the… — Ferdinand Lundberg Copy Share Image
“In the second stage, once those who oppose the status quo succeed in weakening the authority of the existing order, they are… — Christopher L. Hayes Copy Share Image
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“By hiding behind the overarching term “white privilege,” the small percentage of privileged whites have ensured the following: first, they remain disguised… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“The status quo will be insurrected by hope and transformation, as slowly and steadily the "God Movement" invades this world with certain… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
“In Ferdydurke, Gombrowicz got at the fundamental shift that occurred during the twentieth century: until then mankind was divided in two--those who… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“So in both the West and the emerging world the state is in trouble. The mystery is why so many people assume… — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
“The trouble with chronic pain is that it is so easy to become accustomed to it, both mentally and physically. At first… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“He wasn't marrying her. Even if she'd have him, which she certainly wouldn't, he had no intention of leg-shackling himself to such… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. — Devon Aoki Copy Share Image
When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go. — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“There is never a status-quo: If you are not sure something is not getting better, you can be sure that it is… — Vijay Shankar Sharma Copy Share Image
“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.” — Frank Furedi Copy Share Image
It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
