Vicarious Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. — Lee Child
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
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. — Albert Bandura
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
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. — George S. Patton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no such thing as vicarious experience. — Mary Parker Follett
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
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
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. — Todd Phillips
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
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
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
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

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