The status quo is the current state of things. If you are rich and admired, then you’re probably not interested in disrupting the status quo.
The state in which anything is already. The phrase is
also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters
return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante
bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.
Usage Examples
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.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Other Usage ExamplesHealth care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
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.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.