#status quo

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#democratic party #party #quo #status #status quo

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#interested #not interested #overthrow #preserving #quo

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. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#challenge #cowardly #field #go #i

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#any #behavior #beholder #enlightenment #eye

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#challenge #clashing #common #common good #competing

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#defends #long #lost #past #quo

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

— Harold Pinter

#league #most #press #quo #status

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. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#creating #energetic #hopefully #important #music

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe