“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. It is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“In the second stage, once those who oppose the status quo succeed in weakening the authority of the existing order, they are… — Christopher L. Hayes Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“Thus ended the Iran-Iraq War, one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the 20th century. After eight… — Efraim Karsh Copy Share Image
“The recurrent theme in Milliken and Morrison’s research is that people stay silent at work—bury their heads in the sand—because they don’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status… — Peter Gelderloos 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
“Today, working hard is about taking apparent risk. Not a crazy risk like betting the entire company on an untested product. No,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else. Admitting a weakness is… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
“The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably… — Laura J. Burns Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“My course is a survey of how readings of the same constant text have varied over the centuries, from the formation of… — Peter J. Gomes Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Every one of us, at some time or another, has allowed fear to prevent us from living our best possible life. The… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging the status quo, the one who is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“They say "doubt everything," but I disagree. Doubt is useful in small amounts, but too much of it leads to apathy and… — Tom Jubert / Jonas Kyratzes Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The tyranny of the quantifiable is partly the failure of language and discourse to describe more complex, subtle, and fluid phenomena, as… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Kirstein’s realization came sometime later, although he could never say exactly where or when. There is not one type of German, went… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Focusing on your strengths is required for peak performance, but improving your weaknesses has the potential for the greatest gains. This is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to… — Moddi Copy Share Image
“To those of us gathered here today, Matthew Connell filled a number of different roles in our lives. Matthew was a son,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The Trinity Accord is a test. For the United Earth Federation to come into being as more than an idea, we must… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“What shall it be? The easy path? Or the road less traveled? Ask yourself: Can you afford to maintain your unmoving place… — Art Berg Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
