Substitutes Quotes

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.