Status Quo Quotes

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

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

Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

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

It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

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

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

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

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

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

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

In love there is no status quo.

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.

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.

Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

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

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

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

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

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.