Quotes and Sayings About Status Quo
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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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-- Jack Kemp -
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 -
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 -
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
-- Mitch Daniels -
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
-- Orrin Woodward -
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