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Status Quo
/ˌstæt.əs ˈkwoʊ/
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What does Status Quo mean?
noun
- The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
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The aim of all these efforts is to preserve the status quo.
Wherever social control means subordination of individual activities to class authority, there is danger that industrial education will be dominated by acceptance of the status quo.
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Those whose principles lead them into conflict with government, like Anarchists, bring a most formidable indictment against the law and the authorities for the unjust manner in which they support the status quo.
For my part, I deny your God, your authority, your sovereignty, your judicial State, and all your representative mystifications; I want neither Robespierre's censer nor Marat's rod; and, rather than submit to your androgynous democracy, I would support the status quo.