#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

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ↗

— Max Eastman

#demand #favor #neutral #neutrality #people

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#black americans #changing #expect #i #i think

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#come running #confrontation #everybody #military #pick