“At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.”

“To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.”

“The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.”

“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”

“You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.”

“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conservatism pretends that there is only one possible equilibrium—a nostalgic version of the status quo—that society could play. Libertarianism ignores the possibility of equilibrium selection at the level of rational social discourse, and assumes that decentralized market dynamics will magically lead to equilibria that yield the highest aggregate social benefits. Far from being a scientific front for a particular set of political views, modern evolutionary psychology makes most standard views look simplistic and unimaginitive.”