Perpetuates Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps…
— Deepak Chopra
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If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not for this opportunity…
— Theodore Edgar McCarrick
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The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding…
— Edward Weston
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There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the…
— Gene Kelly
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Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.
— Robert Urich
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
— William James
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with…
— Alain Badiou
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War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. Â There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. Â The…
— Jacque Fresco
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The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.…
— Robert K. Merton
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Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about…
— Otto Weininger
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When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy…
— Philip Wollen
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Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
— Muhammad Yunus
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.
— Kailash Satyarthi
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The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly…
— Brian D. McLaren
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