Vicarious Quotes

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.