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Quotes About Perpetration

Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.
~ Ramsey Campbell
Nevertheless, it was not necessary to assume, as Wolfe had in the case of Viola Duday, that if he had killed Priscilla Eads he had probably done so by contrivance and not by perpetration. In spite of his pure white hair and wrinkled old skin, I would have bet, from the way he looked and moved and held his shoulders and head, that he could still have chinned himself up to five or six times.
~ Rex Stout
The commission of one crime often requires the perpetration of another. When once we enter on the ladyrinth of vice, we can seldom return, but are led on, through correspondent mazes, to destruction.
~ Ann Radcliffe
When 'Ruby Sparks' came out, I had to do so many interviews where I had to explain the film and my politics. And I think there was a willful misunderstanding by some people. They thought the movie was trying to perpetrate the thing the movie was deconstructing.
~ Zoe Kazan
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.
~ John Prendergast
Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Perpetration of serious violence and crime is in fact the most distinctive sex difference there is, cross-culturally.
~ Azar Gat
As a young woman, I can say that sexist behavior so often perpetrated by the Left is a major reason why I and many other women left the Democratic party.
~ Dana Loesch
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.
~ Moby
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Denial of perpetration is simply not evidence that none has occurred, because even when there is physical evidence of abuse, sexual abusers of children may continue to deny that they did anything....The tactics of the false memory movement have shown remarkable parallels to those of sexual abusers who attempt to silence their victims, and I wonder why this is.
~ Laura S. Brown
American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You saw a double. A hologram perhaps. Many things, Marly, are perpetrated in my name. Aspects of my wealth have become autonomous, by degrees; at times they even war with one another. Rebellion in the fiscal extremities.
~ William Gibson
But other priests were perpetrators, participating directly in the firing squads.62
~ Helen Graham