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Quotes About Perpetuating

Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.
~ Ramsey Campbell
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
There is a triple purpose to the existence of White privilege: (1) to advantage White Americans, (2) to disadvantage persons of color, and (3) to attribute causes to individual deficiencies, thereby relieving White society of responsibility for perpetuating inequality.
~ Derald Wing Sue
The man of action saves the movement from the suicidal dissensions and the recklessness of the fanatics. But his appearance usually marks the end of the dynamic phase of the movement. The war with the present is over. The genuine man of action is intent not on renovating the world but on possessing it. Whereas the life breath of the dynamic phase was protest and a desire for drastic change, the final phase is chiefly preoccupied with administering and perpetuating the power won.
~ Eric Hoffer
There are also so many more corporations than governments that it's always possible to find success stories, thereby perpetuating the view that the private sector is better at planning than the government sector.
~ Duncan J. Watts
This might explain why it is the intellectual and political elite in our culture that seems most deeply wedded to perpetuating the materialist view of reality.
~ John E. Mack
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
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
His mind turns to organizations, combinations, and arrangements -- legal or apparently legal. He attempts to remedy the evil by increasing and perpetuating the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
~ Frederic Bastiat
I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.
~ Andy Mineo
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
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
What the defenders of Christmas were doing was not keeping harmless old customs but rather perpetuating paganism and idolatry.
~ Gerry Bowler
Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57
~ Mona Rodriguez
Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?
~ Suzanne Somers
It is only when the pain of perpetuating old behavior patterns is perceived to be greater than the pain brought about by trying to change those patterns that we are able to effect and sustain significant psychological and behavioral modifications.
~ Unknown
Love is the single most creative energy which is ever perpetuating. Forget God Love will do but don't forget Love God alone won't do. So Love one and all and be a Co Creator of collective destiny and MickeyMize your life.
~ Unknown
The fact that law schools have played a key role in creating and perpetuating a legal system which at the same time features a massive oversupply of lawyers, and a scandalous lack of access to legal services.
~ Unknown