Vicarious Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
— Lee Child
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
— Albert Bandura
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The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
— George S. Patton
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This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most…
— Albert Bandura
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Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors,…
— Richard G. Scott
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Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect…
— Benjamin Rush
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You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a…
— Anna Akhmatova
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The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price…
— Hannah
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You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become…
— Jack Vance
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
— Mary Parker Follett
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Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement?…
— David Boies
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Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw…
— Lewis Mumford
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It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
— Todd Phillips
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The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of…
— Virchand Gandhi
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The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort…
— John Dos Passos
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a…
— Roger Ebert
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History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give…
— Hilary Mantel
Who Wrote These Vicarious Quotes
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