143 Quotes About Status-quo

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.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

China's push for 'status quo' in Kashmir is a bargaining chip before informal ... Japan and the U.S. has come as another setback for Beijing.

Prejudice doesn't allow one to accept another at a higher level. However their values or views might be respected.

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

Horror fiction tends to be reactionary. It's usually about to return to the status quo -- the monster is the outsider who must be banished from the sanctum. But over and over again, I've created monsters who come from the outside and who call out to somebody to join them in the sanctum.

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

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Just because they write something In this fontAnd break apart their linesTo rhymeTo dramatizeTo imitateDoesn’t make what they say true.And quotations marksDon’t make sentences “life conclusions.” A post, a page,A billboard, or a wallpaper—Let it swirl for a fewand if you want to spit it out,Vomit.If you want to keep it,Let it ride shotgun.But argue with it first.Debate.Don’t simply accept itBecause you mayBy accidentAccept a monsterDisguisedAs a poem.