Quo Quotes

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. (Gloria Steinem)
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. View quote
Warren Bennis
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
The status quo sucks. View quote
George Carlin
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
Mehmet Oz
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. View quote
Anthony Holden
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. (Karl Barth)
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. View quote
David Rockefeller
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
Traditionally, economic analysis treats the economic system as one of the givens. The term "design" in the title is meant to stress that the structure of the economic system is to be regarded as an unknown. An unknown in what problem? Typically that of finding a system that would be, in a sense to be specified, superior to the existing one. The idea of searching for a better system is at least as ancient as Plato's Republic, but it is only recently that tools have become available for a systematic, analytical approach to such search procedures. This new approach refuses to accept the institutional status quo of a particular time and place as the only legitimate object of interest and yet recognizes constraints that disqualify naive Utopias. View quote
Leonid Hurwicz
It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo. View quote
J. C. Squire
Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution. View quote
Leon M. Lederman
The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils. View quote
Eleftherios Venizelos
There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo. View quote
John le Carré
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. View quote
Garry Kasparov
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats. (Bertrand Russell)
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. View quote
Seth Godin
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job. View quote
Hillary Clinton