Expanding Quote by Dorothy Thompson

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

— Charles Lindbergh

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

— Bill Mollison

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

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Kathy Reichs

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…

— Rajneesh

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner…

— Samuel R. Delany

Stress impacts the way we think, feel, and behave. It often leads to a negative, self-perpetuating cycle that is hard to escape.

— Amy Morin

Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea…

— Abraham Lincoln