The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

Often the status quo of man is mired in the quicksand of doubt, arrogance, disobedience, and habit.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The status quo sucks.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for changing the status quo, no matter how slight, can always be considered by someone as too radical, so that the only thoroughgoing escape from the charge of impracticality is never to advocate any change whatever in existing conditions. But to take this approach is to abandon human reason, and to drift in animal- or plant-like manner with the tide of events.