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The status quo sucks.

Status Status Quo Sucks

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

Laurence J. Peter

Time Long Past Lost

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

You Know Status Mess Status Quo

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Want Status Not Interested Status Quo

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Woman Black Believe

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Woman Treat Will Joke

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Christopher Hitchens

War Risks Status Things

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.

Learning Time City Country

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

Change Political Status Because

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

Eye Behavior Say Status

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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Black Think Too Much Status

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

Challenges Leader Status Manager

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Robert Kiyosaki

Education Today You Challenge

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Sandra Cisneros

White Person Always English

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

Status Status Quo Simply Unacceptable

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

Stephen Colbert

Accept Status American Status Quo

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

New Status Status Quo Secretary

If you want a president who will upend the status quo in Washington, D.C., and appoint justices of the Supreme Court who will uphold the Constitution, we have but one choice, and that man is ready. This team is ready. Our party is ready and when we elect Donald Trump, the 45th president.

Constitution Man You Team

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

Status Just Status Quo Thing

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

Mitch McConnell

End Want Status In The End

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

Work Hard Work Good Man

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.

Myself Fight Remember Never

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

People Think Live Important

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Death Business Today Status

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Me Mistakes Way Nothing

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

Business Job Grow Difficulties

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