Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive,… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin 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
“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
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
“At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to… — Alex Vitale Copy Share Image
In the industry I work in, women have had a lot of oppression. So, I don't like to stick to the status… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. — Gene Kim 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
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“A man who does not know how to wage a just battle, first with himself and then with others, has no values… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I ask myself a lot how other women can be against the ideology that has to do with women empowering other women.… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
From the Equal Pay Act to the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equality Act through to the minimum wage and Sure Start,… — Rachel Reeves 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
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
“Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: "Humans," he scoffed. "Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
