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

The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The tendency to continue doing something simply because we have always done it is sometimes called the “status quo bias.

Silence isn’t neutrality; it is supporting the status-quo.

But the shelf life of that status quo was expiring fast.

Being Number Two Sucks.

Nothing can stay the same forever, in business or in life, and counting on the status quo can only lead to grief.

Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it — and were often tainted by it.

as a society we are trained to not question the status quo.

Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)