Status Quo quotes
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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 -
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
-- Andrew Stanton -
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
-- Bill Mauldin -
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The status quo is simply unacceptable.
-- Brad Henry -
Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
-- Cindy Gallop -
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
-- Clark Kerr -
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.
-- Gene Kim -
The status quo sucks.
-- George Carlin -
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 -
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The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.
-- Howard Dean -
A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.
-- Hyrum W. Smith -
Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.
-- Jack Graham -
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-- Jack Kemp -
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If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.
-- James Wolfensohn -
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
-- John Lennon -
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
-- Karen Mills -
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
-- Karl Barth -
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We can walk together to change the status quo.
-- Ken Wyatt -
Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.
-- Leon M. Lederman -
The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.
-- Malorie Blackman -
I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
-- Michael Nutter -
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The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
-- Mitch Daniels -
In love there is no status quo.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
-- Orrin Woodward -
I love challenging the status quo.
-- Sara Ramirez -
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
-- Seth Godin -
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
-- Seth Godin -
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
-- Steve Lacy -
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
-- Ted Dekker -
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There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
-- Umair Haque -
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
-- Uta Hagen -
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
-- Walter Benjamin -
When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.
-- Michael Demon Calce -
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If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.
-- Royce White -
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
-- Richard Powers -
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
