Top 1200 Challenging The Status Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

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

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family of God is not contingent upon any kind of status - marital status, parental status, financial status, social status, or even the kind of status we post on social media.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

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.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

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

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.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

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

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

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

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

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

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

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

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

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

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

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

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

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

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

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

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.