Status Quo Quotes - Page 3

• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  Daughter, War, Sleep

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

  Phil Harding

  Business, Management, Economics

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• Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Enemy, Legends

  Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

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• Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

  Marvin Harris

  Men, Years, Males

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• All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Character, Order, Consistency

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• Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hero, Men, Past

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.11, Routledge

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• If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics are asked to show their passports and others aren't. In the Dominican Republique, if you're slightly progressive, people have a lot of suspicions that you're up to some sort of conspiracy, that this is some sort of plot. On the other hand, if you're conservative and mainstream, people tend to take that as a given and don't notice the politics.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Political, Conservative

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• 'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

  Sandra Cisneros

  White, Challenging The Status Quo, Want

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Sep 20, 2014

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• Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Moments, Situation

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

  John Lennon

  Running, Taken, Factories

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

  Ian Anderson

  Promise, Challenging The Status Quo, May

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• America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

  Hamza Yusuf

  America, Way, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

  Walter Benjamin

  Ideas, Progress, Grounded

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

  John le Carre

  One Thing

  John le Carre (2002). “Smiley's People”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

  Eli Broad

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Ideas, Challenging The Status Quo

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• The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

  Mitch Daniels

  Enemy, Challenging The Status Quo, Social

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Cities, Southern

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.

  George Polya

  Night, Law, Light

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• there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Guy, Intellectual

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• She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Accepting, Dies

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• If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Simple, Competition, Zoom

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• I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

  "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.

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• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  Rick Perry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Messages, Challenging Status Quo

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