Top Substitutes Quotes
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
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.
Gerald R. Ford
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
Dashiell Hammett
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
Iris Murdoch 
Dashiell Hammett 
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 
David Herbert Lawrence 
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Robert McNamara 
George Bernard Shaw 
John Chrysostom 
Walter Lippmann All Substitutes Quotes
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom 
58% of people like this quote
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
55% of people like this quote
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.
Gerald R. Ford
54% of people like this quote
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
Dashiell Hammett
53% of people like this quote
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
52% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
50% of people like this quote
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann
50% of people like this quote