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Status quo   /stˈætəs kwoʊ/   Listen
Status quo

noun
1.
The existing state of affairs.






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"Status quo" Quotes from Famous Books



... of invasion and subjugation, pompous tufthunting fools, commercial adventurers to whom the organization by the nation of its own industrial services would mean checkmate, financial parasites on the money market, and stupid people who cling to the status quo merely because they are used to it, is obtained by heredity, by simple purchase, by keeping newspapers and pretending that they are organs of public opinion, by the wiles of seductive women, and by prostituting ambitious talent to the service of the profiteers, ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw



Words linked to "Status quo" :   state of affairs, situation



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