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The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
— Robert A. Caro
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
— Walter Benjamin
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
— Robert Fritz
research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.
— Adam M. Grant
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
— Laurence J. Peter
In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
— Chris Argyris
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
— Jane Elliot
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
— Laura Miller
About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.
— Christopher Moore
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
— Warren Bennis
The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.
— Kristin Linklater
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
— Julie Christie
Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo.
— Brian Klemmer
There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass.
— Alec Cizak
Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority.
— Caroline Alexander
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
— William J. Clinton
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.
— Rick Perry
Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.
— John P. Kotter
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
— Dick Gephardt
Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.
— Hiroyuki Hirano
In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.
— Phil Ochs
A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.
— Hyrum W. Smith
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
— Orrin Woodward
People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo ...
— Jennifer James
Is there a status quo in the house?
— Stephen King
A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.
— John C. Maxwell
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
— Joseph Campbell
Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.
— Rebecca Solnit
Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.
— Terry Leahy
The status quo cannot work.
— Kofi Annan
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.
— Marshall Ganz
Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.
— Charles Koch
Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
— Robert A. Caro
Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.
— Ken Wilber
Now even reformers needed political machines.
— Rick Perlstein
There is always a solution to every challenging situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.
— Frank Furedi
Most of us are adept at maintaining our self-structures and denying to awareness experiences which challenge our status quo.
— Alan Coulson
It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
— John Le Carre
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
— Karl Barth
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
— John C. Maxwell
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
— Howard Schultz
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
— Desmond Tutu
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Public school system status quo is indefensible.
— Barack Obama
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
— Jeff Fitzgerald
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
— Bill Mauldin
The status quo is working.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Our nation today needs men and women who are bold enough to play on the field and passionate to change the status quo !
— Osunsakin Adewale
Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
— John Lennon
as a society we are trained to not question the status quo.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.
— Mary Mihalic
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
— Sheldon Adelson
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
— Benigno Aquino III
Reality TV does actually have a message, folks. That message is selling and reinforcing capitalism, ignorance, and the status quo.
— Kameron Hurley
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
— David Ben-Gurion
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
— Victor Davis Hanson
Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it - and were often tainted by it.
— Daniel Suarez
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
— Philip Kaufman
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
— Twyla Tharp
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
— John Collings Squire
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
— Seth Godin
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
— Richard Rohr
Status quos are made to be broken.
— Ray A. Davis
Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.
— Leon M. Lederman
You know that you're truly successful when you can afford to fail.
— Henry Mosquera
