Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
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