Quotes About Status Quo

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

This questioning is as applicable to business as it is to rugby. No one person has all the answers, but asking questions challenges the status quo, helps connect with core values and beliefs, and is a catalyst for individual improvement. After all, the better the questions we ask, the better the answers we get.

Real change from the status quo will never come from electing a politician—especially not one who leads a political party dedicated to upholding that status quo.

It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it was in giving a pat on the back to journalists who maintained the status quo by giving readers the warm and fuzzies over their morning paper.

I wouldn't like to say I'm a class warrior.

People don't really want change, especially not if it costs something.

I think sometimes it's a little bit dangerous to change things when clearly they're working.

I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'

El feminismo desea y busca cambiar todo el sistema humano; es cierto que muchos hombres ya se han unido a este proyecto, pero cómo beneficia a los hombres y de qué manera el statu quo actual también les daña son temas que merecen una reflexión más profunda.

It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing is an essential one in any revolt against the status quo of capitalism and consumerism.

The God who may have inspired the first successful peasants' uprising in history is a God of revolution. In all three faiths, he has inspired an ideal of social justice, even though it has to be said that Jews, Christians and Muslims have often failed to live up to this ideal and have transformed him into the God of the status quo.

Muhammad kept his word and returned to Medina with the Emigrants and Helpers. He did not attempt to rule Mecca himself; nor did he replace the Qurayshan officials with his own companions; nor did he establish a purist Islamic regime. All former dignitaries kept their positions in the Haram, and the assembly and the status quo remained intact. His most hated enemies were not only reinstated but promoted and showered with gifts.

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.

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

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

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.'

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.