#status quo

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#country #education #how #maintain #perpetuate

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#challenge #cowardly #field #go #i

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#defends #long #lost #past #quo

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#league #most #press #quo #status

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#democratic party #party #quo #status #status quo

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#creating #energetic #hopefully #important #music

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#exactly #fit #i #models #new

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe

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

— Victor Davis Hanson

#conventional #dramatic #event #lax #like