Top 150 Status Quo Quotes

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
Jay Samit
I’ve been asked that question lots of time before, why wasn’t I on Live Aid? And quite frankly I don’t know. I was riding high in the charts and the styles of music they had were quite varied from Adam Ant to Status Quo to Queen. I would have definitely fitted in.
Shakin’ Stevens
The status quo – Obamacare – is not acceptable.
Karen Handel
Kendrick Lamar is a phenomenal artist whose work has served as a catalyst to raise a new level of consciousness for this generation. His message challenges the status quo and motivates listeners to rethink our society’s institutions.
Aja Brown
As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it’s really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.
Lily Cole
There are still some pieces that aren’t being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren’t needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
Ram Shriram
In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan’s future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.
Chen Shui-bian
We’re a band that’s never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it’s allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
Lauren Mayberry
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
RuPaul
I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.
RuPaul
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
Michael Eric Dyson
This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn’t mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.
Rutger Bregman
If you look back at old Captain America comic strips, he used to fight Nazis, you know? The American ideal is standing up and saying, ‘No, that is not the status quo, and we will not accept that.’
Bob the Drag Queen
The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.
Genesis P-Orridge
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans’ status quo bias.
Marvin Ammori
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
Marianne Williamson
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late ’40’s and early ’50’s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis
I’m optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.
Mitch McConnell
Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy.
Greg Fitzsimmons
The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need to remain in their homes.
Letitia James
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Ill

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We’ve made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Adam Kinzinger
The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn’t going to be finessing a reprieve for the status quo. It’s about actively creating consent for meaningful change, and expanding democratic participation beyond a second referendum.
Ash Sarkar
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
John P. Kotter
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
John P. Kotter
The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.
Jeff Van Drew
It’s interesting that we assign the label ‘political’ to art that doesn’t just fit a mould of status quo. Is ‘Downton Abbey’ not political? That’s political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? ‘Downton Abbey’ is about class. It’s also about race.
Riz Ahmed
Though few hiring managers would deliberately choose to offer women less money than their male counterparts, when using salary history to determine compensation, they unintentionally preserve the status quo. Too often, women will have a lower salary history, and, therefore get a lower offer.
Letitia James
Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn’t going to do as he is told.
MJ Hegar
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.
Mike Pence
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing ‘Kumbaya’. We don’t really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
Nate Parker
We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
Faith in God’s revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl Barth
I hope that people will see that we don’t have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it’s clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.
Michael Bennet
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.
Olympia Dukakis
It’s impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.
Michael Laudrup
Listen, I, I did vote – I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.
Michael Bennet
The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.
John Cameron Mitchell
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
Anthony Albanese
Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won’t work.
Gary Johnson
We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.
Jeff Merkley
I’m all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it’s unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.
Ruth Negga
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.
Devon Aoki
The lesson of ‘CSI’ is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Warren Ellis
The status quo sucks.
George Carlin