“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Autonomous people assert themselves against the status quo. They don't accept the prevailing opinion just because it's the one given to them.… — Maria Brito Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's good to shake up the status quo. You just have to make sure that when you turn society on its… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
“Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Scholars postulate that the only thing that does not change is the every varying world. Other renowned thinkers postulate that the natural… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Just because they write something In this font And break apart their lines To rhyme To dramatize To imitate Doesn’t make what… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“It’s been said that the personal is political, and there’s no doubt that parenting is intensely personal. To argue against traditional ways… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent,… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
“In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Rich, famous, insider journalists do not want to subvert the status quo that so lavishly rewards them. Like all courtiers, they are… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“it’s counterintuitive that the conventional wisdom is that current market success equates to future market success. But this is, for better or… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
Tennis players have won Grand Slams and gold medals in wheelchairs before, but haven't had that cut through. It's got nothing really… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Some are motivated by a desire to mould the law to expand the rights of the downtrodden, while other may be motivated… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas, who are trying to disrupt the status quo, and usher in a better… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I think when somebody wants to work diligently, when somebody wants to take away the cobwebs and see where attention is needed,… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
If you want a president who will upend the status quo in Washington, D.C., and appoint justices of the Supreme Court who… — Mike Pence 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
“Intercession I once heard intercession defined as “rebellion against the status quo.” To pray for your group members and to reserve meeting… — Terry Powell Copy Share Image
“It took a strength of character far greater than the norm to stand up to the status quo. To insist you be… — Lane Hayes Copy Share Image
“You need courage because at various moments in your life you might need to attempt something new, push yourself outside your comfort… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
As Oregonians, we share a deep optimism for a better future. From the time of the Oregon Trail, we have understood that… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
If you're using comedy to shame people for getting informed and questioning authority, you're not doing comedy, you're doing propaganda, 'cause comedy… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan… — Sean Duffy Copy Share Image
