Quotes on Quo

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

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

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.