“Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
If you look back at old Captain America comic strips, he used to fight Nazis, you know? The American ideal is standing… — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone.… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
“Nothing seems more inevitable than the status quo, and yet nothing is more certain than that it will—eventually—end suddenly and that we… — Frederic C. Rich 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
“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
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
“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
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force… — Karel Van Wolferen Copy Share Image
“Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being 'disturbers of… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of studies confirm that human forecasts are flawed and biased. Human decision making is not so great either. Again to take… — Richard H. Thaler 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
“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
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the establishment of the empire of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anger is good. Get nice and pissed. Use the fuel of your injustices to push you to destroy your mask. Don't waste… — Josh Q Copy Share Image
This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Not everyone in the village was happy with the idea of having an Untouchable man's statue put up at the entrance. Particularly… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
“The attempt to understand reality apart from that action of God in and upon reality means living in anabstraction; it means failing… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens,… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
“There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
“Ofer Sharone, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, says some of these new services create wonderful opportunities for the underemployed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
“The crucial lesson of Brexit and of Trump’s victory, is that leaders who are seen as representing the failed neoliberal status quo… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“After all, a kiss between real lovers is not some type of contract, a neatly defined moment of pleasure, something obtained by… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
![“Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night…” quote by George Polya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be8/george-polya-10766_casts_epitaph-on-newton-nature-and-nature-s-la_2908921.png)
