(296 quotes found)
“The status quo sucks.”
George Carlin
“Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''”
Ronald Reagan
“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
“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.”
Robert Byrne
“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
“As we started to entertain more, and gain more status, the kitchen grew into not just a room that would be operational and functional, but one, like the bath, in which we luxuriate.”
Billy Rose
“I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.”
William Baldwin
“To agree on keeping a status quo that can't be kept has nothing to do with consensus. It's decadence.”
Hilmar Kopper
