Status Quo Quotes

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

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

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

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

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

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

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

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

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

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

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

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

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

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

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

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

The status quo cannot work.

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

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

We can walk together to change the status quo.

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.

In love there is no status quo.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

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

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

I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.

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

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

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

The status quo is working.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

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

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

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

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.