It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo. — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
“Don’t be satisfied with what the world offers you. Seek for more. Seek for better. Demand greater than the status quo.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo.… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Education as the practice of freedom affirms healthy selfesteem in students as it promotes their capacity to be aware and live consciously.… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Love moves into the realm of authenticity when one learns to embrace human imperfections, both visible and invisible, and perceive them as… — VD Copy Share Image
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The sexually insatiable woman,” declared a terrified Donald Symons, “is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism,… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Mira was scowling. It annoyed her, almost as a matter of principle, that anyone of this man's age, race, gender, wealth, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
“There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Trying to change our habits demands effort and effort takes energy - which is a cost. And our brains constantly look for… — Peter Bevelin Copy Share Image
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“the fraternity system is a very important target for us... it is a boot camp for the evilest part of the status… — Upright Citizens Brigade Copy Share Image
The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. — Kristin Linklater Copy Share Image
“Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo.” — Brian Klemmer Copy Share Image
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable. — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
“Nothing great is accomplished by those who are intent on maintaining the status quo.” — Steve W. Raimo Copy Share Image
Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
“Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
I'm just telling you in my universe, people that I know who voted for Donald Trump and want the Trump agenda or… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“They often chose the retention model: catch all you can. Often they were not leading by instinct but by tradition. They kept… — T.D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The status quo will not stand, because we believe in a very different New Mexico. Together we will find the courage to… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
![“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/christopher-hitchens-117_anti-war_that-war-bosnian-war-in-the-early-1990s_3077861.jpg)
