Quo Quotes

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

The status quo sucks.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

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

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

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

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

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

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

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

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

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.

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.

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.