There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies…

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often…

— Stephen Sondheim

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement…

— Mike McCurry

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did…

— Ian Anderson

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

— Brian J. White

“Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or…

— Edmund D. Pellegrino

Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

— Stephen Sondheim

“The first is that seemingly small features of social situations can have massive effects on people’s behavior; nudges are everywhere, even if we do…

— Richard H. Thaler

We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation…

— H. L. Mencken

We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their…

— Roland H. Hartley

“Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened. If people…

— Anonymous

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its…

— Grover Cleveland

“Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority…

— Guy Standing

Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite.…

— Esther Duflo