Status Quo Quotes - Page 18

• Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

  Donald Harington

  Believe, Past, Names

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• A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Goal, Conflict

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• The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Risk, Want

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.91, Penguin

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• World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Hate, Commitment

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

  George Soros

  Pain, Suffering, Nightmare

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

  Steve Lacy

  Uprising, Threat, Originals

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• I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Oil, Special

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• In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

  Phil Ochs

  Religious, Men, Years

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• And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, America, Years

  "The Other America". Speech at Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968.

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

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Gender Equality, Achieve, Negotiating

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• The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

  Bertrand Russell

  Drawing, Differences, Long

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell. Chapter 12: "Free Thought and Official Propaganda", 1928.

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

  Scott Belsky

  Ideas, Battle, Tendencies

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• I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

  Dawoud Bey

  Challenges, Culture, Kind

  "'Class Pictures' of social and emotional complexity". Interview with Maureen Post, onmilwaukee.com. May 13, 2009.

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• We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

  Immortal Technique

  Hands, Community, Leader

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Games, Leader, Entrepreneur

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• If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends. This is mainly because many labels are afraid to take big risks on something that sounds too different than the status quo.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Artist, Risk

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Men, Yelling

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does your life cross over into that character, or what's an angle on this that might challenge the status quo? It's just a great journey as well as an education. You're constantly being educated - it's like I'm back at school and making up for lost time.

  Andy Serkis

  Reading, School, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

  Marianne Williamson

  Perspective, Perception, Patterns

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.

  David Bornstein

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Strong, Opportunity, People

  "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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• If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Work Out, Pathways, Want

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• Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Culture, Purpose, Want

  "Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1990.

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• 'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

  Seth Godin

  Long, Why Not, Mediocrity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.31, Penguin

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• Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

  Seth Godin

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