“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”
As quoted in An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987) by William D. Blake.
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