“Status symbols are medals you buy yourself.”
Bernhard Wicki
“The status quo sucks.”
George Carlin
“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
Warren G. Bennis
“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''”
Ronald Reagan
“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
David Mamet
