Perpetuating Quotes

• The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Superstitions, Influence

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.471, UPNE

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• Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Maintaining The Status Quo, Racism

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• I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  People, Rumor

  "Hogan War Heats Up: Linda Rejected From Brooke's 21st Birthday" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self Love, Wish, Immortality

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  There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Names, Tyrants

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• You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are - and then you can uplift others.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

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• If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

  Ellen Page

  Discrimination, Inequality, Ifs

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother". Interview with John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Practice, Agency, Self

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• 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

  Life, Inspire, Dying

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

  Bill Mollison

  Self

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• 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

  Self, Giving, Energy

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

  Jackson Katz

  Powerful, Play, Media

  "'Senator McMahon' Sounds like an Outlandish WWE Story-Line by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Women, Desire, Female

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Self, Logic, Oppression

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• 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

  Spiritual, Powerful, Women

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.

  Edmund Burke

  Interesting, Ancestry, Weakness

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.51, CUP Archive

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• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Interesting, Politics

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Children, Character, Self

  Interview with "Forbes" Magazine, 2009.

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• 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

  Winning, Negative, Causes

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• 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

  Irreparable Harm, Toxic Waste, Climate

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Responsibility, Exercise

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?

  Philip Yancey

  Religious, Jesus, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.82, Harper Collins

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