Status Quo Quotes

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

I love challenging the status quo.

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

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

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

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

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of 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.

The status quo cannot work.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

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

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

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.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

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

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

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

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

The status quo is working.

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

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