Status quo

Young entrepreneurs tend to be fearless and have no respect for the status quo, and that’s exactly what you need in an environment where the status quo is going to put you out of business.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

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Habit with him was all the test of truth,It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.

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I would rather sit with the rural poor, the desperate children of urban blight, the victims of racism, and working people seeking a better life than with those whose religion is the status quo, whose goal is profit and whose hearts are cold.

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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

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Change tends to fill people with this incredible fear.

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Satisfied powers are those that have reached the top of the pecking order, are happy with their lot, and are primarily interested in preserving the status quo. In contrast, rising powers are states on the move. They are not satisfied with their lot, are usually struggling for recognition and influence, and are therefore looking for ways to overturn the status quo.

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Isn’t it generally quite easy to identify your short-term interests when the status quo is to your benefit? In such circumstances, you favor the status quo!

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

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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

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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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