Best 105 quotes in «status quo quotes» category

Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are.

Wann immer ich vom Leben den Status quo erwarte, taucht etwas ganz unerwartetes auf. Die Weltgeschichte ist aus dem gleichen Teig gemacht wie Semmeln. Hauptsache, sie sind frisch.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by Botox, wobbling with her $4,000 Gucci bag right past a child with a sunken belly and exposed ribs encaging a heart too weak to scream.

When what we have mastered becomes mundane, we feel pain. The antidote is pursuit.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status quo is a low-intensity war and challenging the state results in an intensification of that warfare. We must also accept that revolution necessitates interpersonal conflict because certain classes of people are employed to defend the centralizing institutions we must destroy. People who continue to dehumanize themselves as agents of law and order must be defeated by whatever means necessary until they can no longer prevent people’s autonomous realization of their needs.

When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It’s also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. This may explain the cascading grief that flooded the country in late November. We mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation, but we grieved as well for ourselves because we knew we were sick.

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. "Hasidic Noir

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.

You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your life will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo.

You know that you’re truly successful when you can afford to fail.

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

Be rational’ is what they tell you when you are having a sane reaction to an insane situation, and the rationale behind their conception of reason is FUCKED. Be rational. What it really means is assume your position in the status quo. Assume the position.

Break away from the box confining you. Positive dreamers do not follow the status quo. They keep raising the standard of the bar higher and higher. Raise the bar.

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.

Don’t be retarded; excellence is “status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final products to ever stand out of your personal actions!

Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.

Everyone that has ever done anything significant first found themselves in the place where the status quo no longer was enough.

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.

Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?