Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
The status quo cannot work.
A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.
A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.
If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
Public school system status quo is indefensible.
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
In love there is no status quo.
Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.
I'm just telling you in my universe, people that I know who voted for Donald Trump and want the Trump agenda or most of it, I don't know anybody who is content for nothing to happen, status quo while the Republicans and Trump bicker. I don't know anybody who wants any more of this.
Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
