Status Quo Quotes Page 2

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

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.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.

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

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo.

We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

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.

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics.

They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

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

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity.

Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good.

If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice.

The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

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

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others;

the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.