Entrenched Beliefs Quotes

No Federalist over the age of 30 has ever changed his mind on anything

People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

When push comes to shove, the status quo is a very powerful force.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe."