Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“You can either fit in or stand out. Not both. You are either defending the status quo or challenging it.” — Linchpin Copy Share Image
Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“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
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
“The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.” — Richard Powers 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
“Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In Donald Trump, you have someone who will bring real change to Washington, D.C. He's a bold leader. He's distinctly American. He… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“Don’t be retarded; excellence is “status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
As a person in the industry, as well as a makeup lover, a lot of times we see brands pressured to do… — Nikita Dragun Copy Share Image
It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery,… — David W. Earle Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A human rights activist is the worst type of person to mess with. If I can choose an enemy between the worst… — Iveta Cherneva Copy Share Image
“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
“Why Do Some People NOT Take Initiative? • They have a FEAR of . . . rejection, looking stupid, failing, criticism, getting… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Their only common ground is their disdain for the present, or the status quo.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great? — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
