Status Quo Quotes

Status Quo Quote of the day

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

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

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

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.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

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.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

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

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

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

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

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

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.