A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo. — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“The acceptance of status quo is what separate fool from the wise, rich from the poor cause no looser see possibility in… — Olugbenga michael adepoju Copy Share Image
“Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. — Howard Schultz 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
“They often chose the retention model: catch all you can. Often they were not leading by instinct but by tradition. They kept… — T.D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The status quo will not stand, because we believe in a very different New Mexico. Together we will find the courage to… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change.… — Jim Clemmer Copy Share Image
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who… — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic) 'logic' and 'psychology', such as the prevailing… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“The cryptocurrency industry, powered by blockchain technology, has been dominated mostly by male while the traction of the female participants aren’t much… — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
It doesn't need to be deep and it doesn't need to be a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples… — Amy Walter Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Every time you make a contribution to an organization purported searching for a “cure,’ such as the American Heart Association, the American… — Paige Singleton Copy Share Image
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the… — Rollo May 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
The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
“The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.” — Richard Powers 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
“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
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
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“For all the Little Birds in our shared humanity who dare to explore beyond the status quo, welcome!” — Richard Silvia Copy Share Image
