We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Like many others, she'd received a threat from the Riffraff - though she wasn't sure she understood it completely - accusing her… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats,… — Scott Ashjian Copy Share Image
“Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives.… — Kate Levinson Copy Share Image
The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
“The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“In Bougainville, the only flower that grows is the Bougainvillea. In Gainesville, the only thing that ever gets lost are gains. In… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality… — Laurence Gartel Copy Share Image
In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
“Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue.… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Conservatives will fight hard to preserve the institutions of mass incarceration and police brutality. Because they don't see themselves as victims of… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How… — John Novak Copy Share Image
“A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to… — Andy Chambers Copy Share Image
This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment,… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
“Make a change of your steps when necessary. “Status quo” is the court room where change is kept on trial for long,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“My tendency to get kind of bored quickly and not just accepting the monotony of the status quo, the continual monotony of… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
