“It's easy to support the status quo if one is not another of its victims.”

— David Pearce (philosopher)

Reply to Meet the people who want to turn predators into herbivores https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/meet-the-people-who-want-to-turn-predators-into-vegans.html#comment-2393432394, TreeHugger, 4 Dec. 2015

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British transhumanist 1959

Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor

Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83

“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx
1960
Context: Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.