Best Vicious Cycles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.”

Men Young Black Poverty Roles Despair Models Obligation Young Man Cycles Role Models Hopelessness Vicious Vicious Cycles Cycle Of Poverty

Author:Benjamin Hooks

“It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.”

Energy Cycles Devices Efficiency Vicious Hotter Energy Efficiency Vicious Cycles

Author:Bob Gill

“We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.”

“People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.”

“A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.”

World May Mean Whole Happens Mother Teacher Neighbor Whole World Vicious Vicious Cycles

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.”

Source: The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films

“The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.”

Said States Government Levels Locals Usa Cycles Federal Government Vicious Local Government Vicious Cycles

Author:Michael Lewis

“The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.”

Influence Corruption Cycles Bureaucracy Vicious Vicious Cycles Peddling Cronyism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.”

Humans Two War Poverty Progress Violence Arms Obstacles Preparation Cycles Vicious Human Progress Fostering Greatest Obstacles Vicious Cycles

Author:Oscar Arias

“We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.”

People Thinking Believe Kind Reality Media Politician Perception Don't Believe Saving Cycles Vicious Doom Vicious Cycles Perception Is Reality

Author:Amity Shlaes

“I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that`s just gotten completely out of control and you`ve seen it in politics.”

Thinking Problem Bigs America Wealth Cycles Vicious Big Problems Vicious Cycles

Author:Robert Reich

“I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.”

Bigs Individual Party Streets Wall Calling Shots Corporations Cycles Executives Wealthy Vicious Big Corporations Vicious Cycles Calling The Shots

Author:Robert Reich

“I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.”

People Thinking Feels I Can Jobs Lucky Stuck Unhappy My Time Cycles Vicious Time Off Vicious Cycles

Author:Justin Vernon

“I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.”

Want Hard Hands Wanted Fighting My Own Destiny Struggle Violence Who I Am Cycles This Day Vicious My Destiny Vicious Cycles

Author:Paul Kagame

“One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.”

Loss One Thing Impact Climate Climate Change Cycles Vicious Ecosystems Livelihood Deforestation Vicious Cycles

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt government and the prejudicial media, change would be quite easy. All it takes is courageous, fearless, unique individuals to make substantive change in this world. Unfortunately, there are very few courageous and fearless people.”

“I'm not chic, I could never be chic.”

Chic Vicious Cycles

Author:Sid Vicious

“It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)”

Machines Cycles Vicious Washing Christina Washing Machines Vicious Cycles

Author:Jaclyn Moriarty

“It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.”

Found Grew Genius Cycles Isolated Vicious Gratification Vicious Cycles

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.”

People Hurt Stupid Angry Cycles Vicious Stupid Things Vicious Cycles Hurting You

Author:Susane Colasanti

“The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).”

Love Made Age Pages Miserable Hated Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles

Author:Marvin Gaye

“The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.”

People Believe Ends Problem Gay Bunch Labels Assumption Cycles Vegan Stereotype Vicious Gay People Generalization Cabbage Vicious Cycles

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.”

World Needs Powerful Break Fashion Dare Command Cycles Immense Dependence Vicious Break Out Vicious Cycles

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.”

Seems Today Science Security Depends Tomorrow Weapons Accounts Caught Ruins Cycles Materialism Vicious Vicious Cycles Regimentation

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“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 everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.”

Mind Different Body Ignorance Addiction Substance Fulfillment Cycles Mechanism Dependence Vicious Bondage Craving Mind Body Vicious Cycles

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.”

“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”

Self Sometimes Dream Courses Study Impossible Risk Conditions Cycles Heroic Procrastination Vicious Reflexes Lack Of Confidence Procrastinator Vicious Cycles

Author:James Surowiecki

“Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.”

Murder Guilt Revenge Endless Cycles Ancestor Vicious Death Penalty Vicious Cycles Banishment

Book:Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

“I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.”

People Knows Way Years One Day Years Ago Moved Circles My Way Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles Vicious Circles

Author:Chaka Khan

“Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.”

Suffering Order Violence Acceptance Willing Circumstances Injustice Refuse Active Cycles Vicious Systematic Non Violence Halt Vicious Cycles Suffering And Death Cycle Of Violence Acceptance Of Death

Book:Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action

Source: Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action

“I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.”

Cycles Virtuous Vicious Transparency Vicious Cycles Obfuscation

Author:Jeff Weiner

“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”

“Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.”

Giving Two Facts Government Tendencies Cycles Vicious Secrecy Incompetence Authoritarianism Rationale Vicious Cycles

Author:Josh Marshall

“I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.”

Children Made Choices Poor Victim Defeat Stuck Cycles Vicious Child Of God Vicious Cycles Poor Choices

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them....It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least.”

Needs Country Hard Care Lines Gone Training Take Care Discrimination Cycles Household Vicious Mining Vicious Cycles Employment Discrimination

Author:John McCain

“I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.”

Trying Believe Important I Believe Love Life Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles

Author:Criss Angel

“When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.”

School Jobs Poor Teacher Areas Neighborhood Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles Poor Neighborhoods Poor Education

Author:Malcolm X

“As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.”

“There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.”

People Thinking Helping Suffering Produce Depression Negative Treatment Cycles Vicious Misconception Negative Thinking Vicious Cycles Depressed People

Author:Peter McWilliams

“To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.”

Humans Persons Form Process Understanding Judging Judgment Prejudice Rejection Insecurity Cycles Vicious Vicious Cycles

Author:Stephen Covey

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