Quotes with substitutes

  • The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
  • Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • C. S. Lewis I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Leon Trotsky In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Walter Lippmann Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bill Griffith Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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