Status Quo famous quotes

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Diagnosis #Difficult #Status Quo

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Harsh #Status Quo #Critics

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
-- Andrew Stanton

#Influence #Exposure #Status Quo

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

#Civilization #Made #Status Quo

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
-- Brad Henry

#Status Quo

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
-- Cindy Gallop

#Challenges #Status Quo

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
-- Clark Kerr

#Status Quo #Solutions

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Sheep #Revolution #Status Quo

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

#Accepting #Status Quo

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.
-- Gene Kim

#Development #Status Quo

The status quo sucks.
-- George Carlin

#Life #Comedy #Status Quo

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
-- Gerry Adams

#Battle #Want #Status Quo

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.
-- Howard Dean

#Country #Helping #Status Quo

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.
-- Hyrum W. Smith

#Goal #Conflict #Status Quo

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.
-- Jack Graham

#Latin #Status Quo #Mess

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-- Jack Kemp

#Party #Democratic #Status Quo

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.
-- James Wolfensohn

#Change #Moving #Status Quo

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
-- John Lennon

#Political #Religion #Status Quo

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
-- Karen Mills

#Care #Small Business #Status Quo

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
-- Karl Barth

#God #Revelations #Status Quo

We can walk together to change the status quo.
-- Ken Wyatt

#Leadership #Together #Status Quo

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.
-- Leon M. Lederman

#Revolution #Status Quo

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.
-- Malorie Blackman

#Challenges #News #Status Quo

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
-- Michael Nutter

#Running #Mayors #Status Quo

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

#Enemy #Social #Status Quo

In love there is no status quo.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney

#Status Quo

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
-- Orrin Woodward

#Leader #Something New #Status Quo

I love challenging the status quo.
-- Sara Ramirez

#Challenges #Status Quo

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
-- Seth Godin

#Jobs #Positivity #Status Quo

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
-- Seth Godin

#Status Quo

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
-- Steve Lacy

#Uprising #Threat #Status Quo

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
-- Ted Dekker

#Writing #Issues #Status Quo

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
-- Umair Haque

#Reality #Status Quo

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
-- Uta Hagen

#Artist #Rebel #Status Quo

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
-- Walter Benjamin

#Ideas #Progress #Status Quo

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.
-- Michael Demon Calce

#Hacking #Pushing #Status Quo

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.
-- Royce White

#Status Quo #Can't Change #Ifs

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
-- Richard Powers

#Realizing #Disorientation #Status Quo

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
-- Roxane Gay

#Should #Fine #Status Quo