The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more… — Robin Hahnel Copy Share Image
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I've tried it long ago, with hashish and peyote. Fascinating, yes, but no good, no. This, as we find in alcohol, is… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can… — Lester Frank Ward Copy Share Image
It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize… — Charlene Spretnak Copy Share Image
What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but… — Dwight Edwards Copy Share Image
“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution,… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war,… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings… — George Perle Copy Share Image