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There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. -- David Rakoff
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. -- George Santayana
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. -- Albert Bandura
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? No. -- David Boies
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 vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. -- Roger Ebert
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 the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. -- Virchand Gandhi
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. -- Douglas Rushkoff
All action is vicarious faith. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. -- George S. Patton
I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record. -- Cosimo Matassa
In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself. -- Peter C Bunnell
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking. -- Fernando Pessoa
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books... -- Richard Wright
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures. -- Alan Hirsch
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration. -- Christopher Hitchens
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 a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it. -- Richard J. Foster
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. -- Clive Barker
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 morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God. -- Benjamin Rush
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 regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. -- Lewis Mumford
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 of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. -- John Dos Passos
Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating. -- Mason Cooley
The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. -- Lee Child
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. -- Todd Phillips
I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man. -- Heather Langenkamp
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. -- Steven Pinker
All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience. -- Tom Bissell
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious. -- Elon Musk
The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- James E. Faust
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do. -- Mother Jones
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation. -- Lee Siegel
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant. -- Paul Bloom
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 him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him. -- Hilary Mantel
History at its best is vicarious experience. -- Edmund Morgan
There is no such thing as vicarious experience. -- Mary Parker Follett
Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious wayto feel alive. -- V.C. Andrews
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. -- Pope Pius XI
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics. -- James A. Garfield
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild. -- Bertrand Russell
My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump`s ability to maneuver. -- Michelle Goldberg
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 more real than things. -- Jack Vance

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