Self Perpetuating Quotes

#1. You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

Thom Powers

#2. I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

Kathy Reichs

#3. In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Pico Iyer

#4. The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood.

Paul Halmos

#5. Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will become habitual. You will do it and you will not be the doer; you will do it just because of the force of habit.

Rajneesh

#6. The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. - AARON GINN

Ryan Holiday

#7. We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Charles Lindbergh

#8. Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

Dorothy Thompson

#9. Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

Bill Mollison

#10. All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#11. Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.

Philip K. Dick

#12. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#13. Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#14. By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#15. Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

Leigh Steinberg

#16. Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

Helen Keller

#17. Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Giuseppe Prezzolini

#18. Oppression has no logic
just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Gloria Steinem

#19. Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

Paul Johnson

#20. Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Victor Hugo

#21. If we do not change our way of life, and fast, we will destroy ourselves by continuing to pollute the environment that sustains us, abusing natural resources, poisoning our food supply, destroying large ecosystems, contaminating the air, and perpetuating climate change.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#22. Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the "disorganizer," the creator of a different future and the enemy of today. In most industrial laboratories, "defensive research" aimed at perpetuating today, predominates.

Peter F. Drucker

#23. Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

Simone Signoret

#25. The world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes in mystery.

Fennel Hudson

#26. Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone De Beauvoir

#27. The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

Dwight Schultz

#28. We must condemn those who are perpetuating the violence, and not the individuals who engage in the pursuit of their constitutional rights.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

Hippocrates

#30. Remember, misogyny is hatred. Whether we are aware of it or not, when we hate other girls, we are hating ourselves, cooperating with the Enemy, and perpetuating grave damage. To hate, Jesus said, is to murder.

Stasi Eldredge

#31. Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance.

Bryant McGill

#32. Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#33. In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.

Thomas E. Mann

#34. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.

George Orwell

#35. This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

Charles Krauthammer

#36. You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

Walton Goggins

#37. If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Ellen Page

#38. I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

Yoko Ono

#39. People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

DJ Shadow

#40. No Australian today is responsible for what happened on our colonial frontier. But we are responsible for not acknowledging what happened. If we do not, our integrity as a nation is flawed and we are shamed as a people for perpetuating a lie.

Timothy Bottoms

#41. I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetuating our faith through your generation and beyond.

James C. Dobson

#42. The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

C.L.R. James

#43. I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

Wesley Snipes

#44. The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Benjamin Rush

#45. One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

Honore De Balzac

#46. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Albert Einstein

#47. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

John H. Alexander

#48. Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Jackson Katz

#49. Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.

Grace Gealey

#50. Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Wilfred Owen

#51. The only question which concerns us here is whether these "educated" persons are actually equipped to face the ordeal before them or unconsciously contribute to their own undoing by perpetuating the regime of the oppressor.

Carter G. Woodson

#52. Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Kailash Satyarthi

#53. Rani, too, was perpetuating memories. Harappa the martyr, the demigod, lived on in his daughter's thoughts; but no two sets of memories ever match, even when their subject is the same (...)

Salman Rushdie

#54. Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

Chris Matakas

#55. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#56. Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.

Sam Owen

#57. PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

Ambrose Bierce

#58. Experts agree that the root cause of bullying, workplace or otherwise, is the perpetuating party's own feelings of inadequacy. Those who engage in bullying are harboring personal psychological distress, particularly in matters of confidence and control.

Noah Sullivan

#59. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

Helen Gurley Brown

#60. Why do we insist on perpetuating estereotypes that will affect each and every one of us someday?

Jo Ann Jenkins

#61. Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father.
- Nell

Jane Steen

#62. Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers' clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war.

Colleen McCullough

#63. Without a passion to disciple believers to Christlikeness through the ministries of the church, the church will focus merely on perpetuating its programs, and the sheep will grow sickly and unfruitful.

Jim Berg

#64. Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#65. Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus perpetuating the fifty-plus-year Cold War with Cuba

Lamar Waldron

#66. With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

Yehuda Berg

#67. Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Harry S. Truman

#68. An organization is not, like an animal, an end in itself, and successful by the mere act of perpetuating the species. An organization is an organ of society and fulfills itself by the contribution it makes to the outside environment.

Peter F. Drucker

#69. Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Simone De Beauvoir

#70. One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

DJ Shadow

#71. People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

S. Jay Olshansky

#72. Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

Riane Eisler