It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Mary Richards

My father taught me how to substitute realities.
Mira Sorvino

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Francis Wright

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Paul Cezanne

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
Louis D. Brandeis

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
Benjamin Cardozo

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell