For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets. — Al Oerter Copy Share Image
Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments. — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
