Status Quo Quotes - Page 11

• Embrace change as an opportunity to learn, to improve, to make a difference in others' lives as well as in your own. Have the courage to challenge the status quo. Remember that preparation and ambition in combination with opportunity equals success. And have fun!

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Fun, Ambition, Opportunity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

  John Lennon

  Hate, Army, Police

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that the movie is about, because it basically gives you three options for looking at the police, as symbolized by Dave Brown.

  Oren Moverman

  Reality, Giving, Police

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of the occupation of certain neighborhoods and certain parts of cities that are designed, basically, to keep the bottom down and basically maintain the status quo, but out of sight, so that the other side - the people in power, the people with money, the people with comfort, the people that are living in the "safer" areas - are sure that they can sleep safely in their bed while bad thing are happening to people and it's not their problem.

  Oren Moverman

  Sleep, Reflection, Thinking

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• I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.

  Oren Moverman

  Thinking, Games, People

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• Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

  Ted Nugent

  Trump, Ultimate

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

  Nigel Farage

  Feelings, Boost

  "Brexit fallout recapped: David Cameron out, Jeremy Corbyn under pressure while Nicola Sturgeon plans second Scottish referendum" by Jason Beattie, www.mirror.co.uk. June 25, 2016.

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• I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Hero, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Weakness

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

  Shane Claiborne

  Idols, Made, Idealistic

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain the way it is, women will not be lauded and applauded for bonding with and helping each other, because it would destroy the world order if women organized; it would topple the whole thing. And so, it makes perfect sense to me that the current order of things would encourage the cat fights and encourage the comparisons and encourage the girl-on-girl hate that you see just being promoted everywhere.

  Amanda Palmer

  Girl, Hate, Cat

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• All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.

  Alastair Campbell

  Government, People, Gone

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fighting, Entrepreneur, Needs

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

  Viola Davis

  The End Of The Day, World, Ends

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Men, Groups

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Ordinary, Influence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.

  Marc Gafni

  Letting Go, Religious, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015

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• The status quo is working.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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• When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

  Bell Hooks

  Practice, Creating, Effort

  Bell Hooks (2013). “Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice”, p.29, Routledge

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• Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Thinking, Want, Moments

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.272, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

  Manly Hall

  Destiny, Men, Intellectual

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• If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

  James Wolfensohn

  Change, Moving, Ifs

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• Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Creating, Mind

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• Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Maintaining The Status Quo, Racism

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• I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration. The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Keys, Government

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