quotes 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 MauldinSource : Bill Mauldin (1947). “Back Home”
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Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
-- Cindy GallopSource : "Cindy Gallop On Bars In Shanghai And Women In Advertising". ADC Interview, adcglobal.org. November 11, 2013.
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The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
-- Clark KerrSource : Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.134, Harvard University Press
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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.
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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 AdamsSource : Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books
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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.
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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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Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.
-- Leon M. LedermanSource : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.
-- Malorie BlackmanSource : Malorie Blackman (2008). “Knife Edge”, p.288, Random House
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I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
-- Michael NutterSource : "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.
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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 -
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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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 HaqueSource : "From The Vault: Umair Haque: Redefining How We Measure Economic Growth". Interview with Dylan Ratigan, www.dylanratigan.com. December 2011.
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
-- Uta HagenSource : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons
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The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
-- Walter BenjaminSource : Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.184, Harvard University Press
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When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.
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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 GaySource : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.11, Harper Collins