Status Quo Quotes - Page 9

• Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

  Frank Popoff

  Success, Mean, Aversion

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• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Beautiful, Dream, Powerful

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• When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

  Kerry Washington

  Writing, People, Choices

  "Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches" by Vi-An Nguyen, parade.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I love challenging the status quo.

  Sara Ramirez

  Challenges, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

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• The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.

  Katie Couric

  Views, Media, People

  "Miss Representation: An Interview with Writer & Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Influence, Exposure, Obligation

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

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• Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Running, Interesting, Choices

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• Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

  Katsuaki Watanabe

  Business, Mean, Progress

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• To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

  Desmond Tutu

  Taken, Sides

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• Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.

  Scott Baio

  Thinking, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Change, America, Greed

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• Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

  John P. Kotter

  Organization, Leader, Feelings

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• It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Issues, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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

  Edward Snowden

  World, Surveillance, Mass

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

  Patricia Arquette

  Years, Pay Gap, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

  John Hurt

  Optimistic, Revolution, Pessimistic

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be 'outside' the system. ONE IS ALWAYS IN THE SYSTEM. The only question is whether one is part of the system in a way which challenges or strengthens the status quo. Privilege is not something I take and which I therefore have the option of not taking. It is something that society gives me and unless I change the institutions which give it to me, they will continue to give it, and I will continue to have it, however noble and egalitarian my intentions.

  Harry Brod

  Giving Up, Challenges, Needs

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• 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.

  Pearl Abraham

  Loyalty, Religious, Mean

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• Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Change, Sex, Hate

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• Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

  John Stoltenberg

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.92, Routledge

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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. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

  Viola Davis

  Wall, People, Giving

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.

  Jim Clemmer

  Change, Fall, Maintaining The Status Quo

  Jim Clemmer (1999). “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, p.14, Jim Clemmer

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• Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, People

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2011). “Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study”, p.91, David C Cook

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• I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated, where women are assuming new roles, where young people want to be consulted and participate. I think the trick is to open up, move down the path of reform, do it in a way that is consistent with your own society's stability and culture, and just don't think you can do nothing.

  Thomas Friedman

  Moving, Thinking, People

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