“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
Part III, Chapter 11, Question Success, p. 135
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> <br class="br">1960 <br class="br">Context: Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.
“Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
“There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.”
John le Carré book Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979)
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Forbes "Lean And Meaningful: What Founders Still Need To Fix In The 21st Century" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/02/10/lean-and-meaningful-what-founders-still-need-to-fix-in-the-21st-century/#1a89897a2389. February 29, 2016 issue.
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
Source: The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth
“I blow my load over the status-quo, here we go.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"Smooth Sailing", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist
Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 197.