This collection holds 298 status quo quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are George Carlin, Paul Gosar and Sara Ramirez.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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The status quo sucks.

We do not need more status quo.

I love challenging the status quo.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

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

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

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

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

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

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

No one went to the ballot box to vote for something worse than the status quo.

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

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

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

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