Status Quo Quotes - Page 10

• We can walk together to change the status quo.

  Ken Wyatt

  Leadership, Together, Walks

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• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Pain, Fear

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

  Grant Morrison

  Trying, Stories, Sticks

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to snap. Music and politics, it seems, are increasingly considered to be separate domains. Music is about making peace, not conflict, they say. And, therefore, it is best to do what is considered normal and uncontroversial. Increasingly, accepting the status quo is a precondition for being considered entertainment, while protest culture is grouped alongside politics.

  Moddi

  Art, Culture, Conflict

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

  Frank Bruni

  Thinking, Political, Assuming

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• 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 doesn't play by the old-fashioned rules. He's going to Washington, D.C., break up the status quo, and I believe get this economy moving again and have America standing tall in the world.

  Mike Pence

  Real, Believe, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Donald Trump was successful in capturing "drain the swamp, change Washington, a big screw-you to the status quo" - which has already been ironic since election night. But it was one of his big messages, and there's a broader sense of how to address the feelings of so many people left behind by the economy.

  Neera Tanden

  Successful, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It doesn't need to be deep and it doesn't need to be a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples of how this economy is going to work for the people that feel right now it's not working for them, and then finally to get to central tension of this campaign. This is a presidential campaign where you have Americans now who want to see change. And Hillary Clinton is the status quo. How can she be both status quo and change?

  Amy Walter

  People, Giving, Presidential

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

  Ayshay

  Musician, Philosopher, Questioning

  Source: www.acclaimmag.com

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• I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Challenges, Response

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment, the status quo, people who have held power, people that didn`t take on President Barack Obama to the extent he wanted to or the base wants to.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Party, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Competition has never been more threatening than it is now. Innovative thinkers challenge the status quo in their organizations. They are often viewed as "troublemakers." They threaten the defenders of the status quo. So competition within an organization can also be brutal. The most effective leaders overcome "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom" by being change agents themselves. They encourage and reward innovative thinking. I have observed that people only resist changes imposed on them by other people.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

  Derek Landy

  Upset, Needs, Asking

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• Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, Business, Successful

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• Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

  Tony Hsieh

  Change, Able, Trouble

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• The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right.

  Rick Perry

  Crazy, Lying, Kids

  The Republican presidential Debate at the Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hate, America, Political

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.

  Bill McKibben

  Commitment, Justice, Overcoming

  Bill McKibben (2007). “Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community”, p.69, Macmillan

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• It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who grew up in this country, and who go to the same school you once went to... They thought if we only enforce the law, people will self-deport... It's not going to happen. The solution is not the status quo, or deportation when you're talking about breaking up families.

  Mike Coffman

  Country, Children, School

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• I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

  Devon Aoki

  Fashion, Thinking, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.

  Ralph Bunche

  Rights, Progress, Society

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

  Tony Benn

  Looks, Ladders, Politics

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• Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

  Thomas Pogge

  Church, Economics, Century

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

  Toni Morrison

  Peace, War, Reading

  Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage

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• Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Acceptance, Perfect

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.46, Penguin

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