Status Quo Quotes
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter -
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Ian Anderson
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves -
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.
Elizabeth Janeway -
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl Barth -
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
Jack Kemp -
The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
Karen Handel
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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
Ted Dekker -
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
Andrew Cuomo -
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer -
We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.
Jack Kingston -
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The status quo is working.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
Bella Abzug -
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
Seth Godin -
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
Jane Elliott -
There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
Umair Haque -
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The current status quo works against the interests of all. The time has come to move forward all together, leaving behind restrictions and confrontation.
Abdullah Gul
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I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
Benigno Aquino III -
We are not talking about a choice between this merger and the status quo, ... US Airways has been hemorrhaging money. If nothing happens, it is my judgment we'll see US Airways in bankruptcy or out of business in coming years.
Bud Shuster -
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
John Lennon The Beatles