Status Quo Quotes

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

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

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

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

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.