Status quo Quotes

The status quo cannot work.

— Kofi Annan

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

— Brad Henry

The status quo is working.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Status quo is Sturm und Drang. Or”

— Linda Rottenberg

In love there is no status quo.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I love challenging the status quo.

— Sara Ramirez

“Status quos are made to be broken.”

— Ray A. Davis

The status quo sucks.

— George Carlin

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

— Jeff Van Drew

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

— Robert Byrne

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

— Ron Kaufman

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

— Gene Kim

“that if you don’t take initiative, the status quo will persist.”

— Adam M. Grant

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

— Helen Mirren

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

— Jack Kemp

“That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.”

— Walter Benjamin

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

— Wesley Morris

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.

— Jeff Fitzgerald

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

— Benigno Aquino III

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

— Shirley Chisholm

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

— Seth Godin

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

— Devon Aoki

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who…

— Richard Hatch

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very…

— Lupe Fiasco

Its hard, its almost natural, not to hate, but to think, 'I'm better than you, so I can't work with you' that's…

— Tink

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo.…

— Olympia Dukakis

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes,…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a clear violation of international law as well as an attempt to unilaterally change the status quo…

— Fumio Kishida

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be…

— Barack Obama

What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the…

— Timothy D. Snyder

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers…

— Marianne Williamson

The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme…

— Rick Perry

The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits…

— Ray Anderson

Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find…

— Ray Bradbury

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…

— William Styron

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

— Shirley Chisholm

“So a visionary’s best defense… is not only having a thick skin, but having reservoirs of self-confidence as well. Because when those…

— Bill Shore

It doesn't need to be deep and it doesn't need to be a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples…

— Amy Walter