Quotes About Maintaining The Status Quo

#1. Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

Richard Bachman

#2. Why do you read all the details of divorce cases in the newspapers? ... you are enjoying it. You would not dream of doing these things yourself, but you are doing them by proxy.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

David Ben-Gurion

#7. Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#8. I love him too much, which makes me think that despite his declarations, he didn't love me at all.

Carmen Jenner

#9. A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Andrew Vachss

#10. Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

PZ Myers

#11. Most of us are adept at maintaining our self-structures and denying to awareness experiences which challenge our status quo.

Alan Coulson

#12. At any given time, you're either moving forward or you're moving backward. There is no in-between. There's no such thing as maintaining the status quo. It

Darrin Donnelly

#13. As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

N.K. Jemisin

#14. Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#15. Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

Irvine Welsh

#16. Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

John Stoltenberg

#17. The most potent tool in maintaining the status quo is our belief that change is impossible.

Russell Brand

#18. I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Eli Broad

#19. One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

Michael Dell