America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical… — Richard Barnet Copy Share Image
“I confront the question of whether DEI initiatives are divisive and ineffective. The answer is yes on both counts, but not for… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“When there is a network of slightly different institutions, the reflex response to a given policy problem is for each institution to… — Thomas Hale Copy Share Image
“In families in which parents are overbearing, rigid, and strict, children grow up with fear and anxiety. The threat of guilt, punishment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow 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
“Aliveness is energy. It’s the juice, the vitality, and the passion that wakes up our cells every morning. It’s what makes us… — Daphne Rose Kingma Copy Share Image
“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Leadership is about having clear & grand vision, taking initiatives, possessing courage to question the status quo, ability to set large goals,… — Krishna Saagar Copy Share Image
When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“If there is a main problem in American art today,” says critic Tom Piazza, “it is not that we need the new… — James Bau Graves Copy Share Image
I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Women are taught to sacrifice, to play nice, to live an altruistic life because a good girl is always rewarded in the… — G.L. Lambert Copy Share Image
“Renowned for stating his convictions in the form of a paradox, as above, Chesterton, along with anyone who has something positive or… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“When it became clear that Xi Jinping was placing his bet on fortifying the status quo, another Party aristocrat, Hu Dehua, the… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So in both the West and the emerging world the state is in trouble. The mystery is why so many people assume… — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“The trouble with chronic pain is that it is so easy to become accustomed to it, both mentally and physically. At first… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“He wasn't marrying her. Even if she'd have him, which she certainly wouldn't, he had no intention of leg-shackling himself to such… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
