Status Quo Quotes - Page 5

• Esta noche fue una gran oportunidad para enfrentarnos al statu quo político que nos ha dado déficits de billones de dólares y ha dejado a millones de personas sin trabajo. Nuestro objetivo era inyectar un poco de sentido común en la conversación entre los republicanos en un momento en el que seguir como hasta ahora sencillamente no funcionará.

  Gary Johnson

  Oportunidad, Sentido Común, Política

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• Una facción dispuesta a asumir los riesgos de hacer la guerra al osificado statu quo de Oriente Próximo puede calificarse de muchas cosas, pero no de conservadora.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Risk, East

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• Las ONG tienen un espacio complicado en la política neoliberal. Se supone que deben absorber la ira. Incluso cuando hacen un buen trabajo, se supone que deben mantener el statu quo. Son los misioneros del mundo empresarial.

  Arundhati Roy

  Espacio, Mundo, Complicado

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• The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.

  Peter Dreier

  Common Sense, Action, Progressive

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Accepting, Dies

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• Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Games, Challenges

  Discurso de aceptación de la candidatura republicana a la Vicepresidencia, pronunciado el 3 de septiembre de 2008 en Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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• I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

  "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.

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• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Real, Trying, Honest

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tony Campolo

  America, Support, Church

  Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.67, Basic Books

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• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Challenging The Status Quo, Harsh, Challenging Status Quo

  "The (Real) Governator". Interview With Lisa Depaulo, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• 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.

  Eli Broad

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Ideas, Challenging The Status Quo

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• Cuando algo realmente malo está pasando en una cultura, el tipo medio no lo ve. No puede verlo. Es normal y está rodeado e inmerso en la cantinela y el discurso del statu quo.

  George Saunders

  Promedio, Tipo, Cultura

  "Esta semana en la ficción: George Saunders", por Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. 4 de octubre de 2012.

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• Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Durante mucho tiempo se ha asumido que la violencia es necesaria para el cambio político. Los gobernantes nunca ceden el poder voluntariamente, dice el argumento, así que los progresistas no tienen más remedio que contemplar el uso de la fuerza para conseguir un mundo mejor, conscientes de la compensación entre una pequeña cantidad de violencia ahora y la aceptación de un statu quo injusto indefinidamente.

  Steven Pinker

  Aceptación, Largo, Gente

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Enemy, Challenging The Status Quo, Social

  Discurso de apertura ante el Comité de Acción Política Conservadora, pronunciado el 11 de febrero de 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

  Lily Cole

  Arte, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  Rick Perry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Messages, Challenging Status Quo

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• Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

  Jello Biafra

  Creating, Stupidity, Important

  Entrevista con John Krewson, www.avclub.com. 9 de abril de 1997.

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• The status quo cannot work.

  Kofi Annan

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

  Elizabeth May

  Party, Fighting, Cutting

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• The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

  Stephen Colbert

  Accepting, Visa, American Express

  "There's Nothing Funny About Colbert's SuperPAC" by Peter Overby, www.npr.org. June 30, 2011.

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• Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

  Robert Fritz

  Fall, Effort, Trying

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• No estoy seguro de querer sonar como un candidato. Sólo quiero sonar como un estadounidense que intenta hacer este país mucho más fuerte. No como el típico político, sino como alguien que va a hacer su trabajo, que no va a prestar atención a todos los grupos de intereses especiales, que va a cambiar el statu quo, que va a desplazar el poder fuera de Washington y que va a volver a encarrilar a Estados Unidos reforzando también nuestro ejército.

  John Kasich

  Cambio, Fuerza, País

  "Fox News Sunday" con Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. 3 de mayo de 2015.

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