“Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it—and were often tainted by it.” — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do… — No I.D Copy Share Image
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but… — Martha Heller Copy Share Image
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Certainly from the standpoint of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the hope is that desires for the “primitive” or fantasies about the Other… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
“Don’t be retarded; excellence is “status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a person in the industry, as well as a makeup lover, a lot of times we see brands pressured to do… — Nikita Dragun Copy Share Image
“Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“When the fear of failure triumphs over the repugnance of mediocrity, we must resign ourselves to the status quo. Every change, every… — D.A. Blankinship Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier… — Peter Dreier Copy Share Image
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass.” — Alec Cizak Copy Share Image
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Individuals with lower cognitive abilities may gravitate towards more socially conservative rightwing ideologies that maintain status quo. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give thanks to all those who have gone Before you who have doubted the status quo And who have identified injustice and… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
If we give up the rules-based international order, and allow changes to the status quo by force, the effects will also spread… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans'… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and… — Adam Kinzinger Copy Share Image
By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His people under His wings,… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at… — Parvathy Copy Share Image