Vicious Circles Quotes:

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change

- Samantha Morton

topic: Circles, People, Drug, Vicious Circles

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

- Maureen Dowd

topic: Mother, Circles, Empires, Vicious Circles

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.

- Chaka Khan

topic: Years, Circles, People, Vicious Circles, Vicious Cycles

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

- Sid Vicious

topic: Music, Vicious, Mum, Vicious Circles

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

topic: Mean, Circles, Intellectual, Vicious Circles

Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...

- Dan Millman

topic: Circles, Appreciate, Needs, Vicious Circles

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

- William A. Dembski

topic: Circles, People, Political, Vicious Circles

And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

- Ernest Gaines

topic: School, Men, Years, Vicious Circles

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

- Desmond Tutu

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Sorry, Humility, Order, Please Forgive Me, Self Righteousness

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

- Mac Davis

source: Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

topic: Song, Growing Up, Writing, Vicious Circles

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

- Ron Chernow

topic: Successful, Past, Circles, Vicious Circles

One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

- Konrad Lorenz

topic: Power, Order, Circles, Vicious Circles

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

- Clifford Allbutt

topic: Believe, Science, Errors, Vicious Circles

Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

- Vladimir Lenin

source: Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1988). “What is to be done?”, Penguin Classics

topic: Running, Art, Lying, Vicious Circles

This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors?

- Herbert Marcuse

source: "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 33), 1964.

topic: Struggle, Circles, Broken, Masters And Servants, Dependency

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

- Andres Segovia

topic: Writing, Guitar, Circles, Vicious Circles, Virtuoso

Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

- James Surowiecki

source: "Inflated Fears". www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2009.

topic: Jobs, Believe, Circles, Vicious Circles, Interest Rate

He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: War, Circles, Knowing, Vicious Circles

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

- Alan Watts

topic: Circles, Expectations, Survival, Organic Life, Vicious Circles

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Past, Circles, Becoming, Vicious Circles, Simpler Times

I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.

- Lisa Jewell

topic: Struggle, Love You, Men, Power Struggle, Vicious Circles

As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

- Emanuel Celler

source: Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

topic: Hate, Europe, Circles, Vicious Circles

In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.

- Garry Kasparov

source: Source: www.rferl.org

topic: Russia, Circles, Broken, Vicious Circles

For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism.

- Sanal Edamaruku

topic: Reality, Circles, Addiction, Vicious Circles, Hardships Of Life

We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

- Mary Robinson

topic: Believe, Rights, Circles, Vicious Circles

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

- George du Maurier

source: George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.119, tredition

topic: Circles, Smoking, Quitting, Vicious Circles

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

source: "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 21 : The Monetary Framework, 1960.

topic: Government, Circles, Effort, Monetary Policy, Vicious Circles

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Recovery, Circles, People, Downward Spiral, Vicious Circles

I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

topic: Taken, Reality, Thinking, Vicious Circles

"Plaza de la Soledad" is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women - middle-aged and older - who want to break a vicious circle that began with abuse and abandonment suffered from an early age. They simply want to have a better life. The film follows their quest to find true love and their capacity to transform themselves.

- Maya Goded

topic: Strong Women, Circles, Abuse, Vicious Circles, Finding True Love

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

- Alan Watts

topic: Thinking, Echoes, Self, Vicious Circles, Simultaneous

Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

- Gordon Brown

topic: Cutting, Circles, Long, Vicious Circles, Repayment

The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

topic: Government, Circles, Ideas, Vicious Circles

The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.

- Deborah Meier

topic: Attitude, Government, Data, Vicious Circles

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

- Lazare Carnot

topic: Beautiful, Circles, Ideas, Vague Ideas, Vicious Circles

Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

topic: Beautiful, Cancer, Order, Vicious Circles, Horrible Things

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

source: "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

topic: Hate, Eye, Circles, Eye For An Eye, Vicious Circles

Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

- Theodore Millon

topic: Party, Circles, Point Break, Contrition, Vicious Circles