“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 331)
“Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.”
"Holla If Ya Hear Me" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/hollaifyahearme.html (1993).
1990s
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Edward Moore
(1712–1757) English dramatist and writer
The Happy Marriage.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.”
Nikolai Berdyaev
(1874–1948) Russian philosopher
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 80
Context: A real reconciliation of East and West is impossible and inconceivable on the basis of a materialistic Communism, or of a materialistic Capitalism, or indeed of a materialistic Socialism. The third way will neither be "anti-Communist" nor "anti-Capitalist". It will recognize the truth in liberal democracy, and it will equally recognize the truth in Communism. A critique of Communism and Marxism does not entail an enmity towards Soviet Russia, just as a critique of liberal democracy is not entail enmity towards the west. … But the final and most important justification of a "third way" is that there must be a place from which we may boldly testify to, and proclaim, truth, love and justice. No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.
Ellen Willis
(1941–2006) writer, activist
"Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)
Context: These apparently opposed perspectives meet on the common ground of sexual conservatism. The monogamists uphold the traditional wife's "official" values: emotional commitment is inseparable from a legal/moral obligation to permanence and fidelity; men are always trying to escape these duties; it's in our interest to make them shape up. The separatists tap into the underside of traditional femininity — the bitter, self-righteous fury that propels the indictment of men as lustful beasts ravaging their chaste victims. These are the two faces of feminine ideology in a patriarchal culture: they induce women to accept a spurious moral superiority as a substitute for sexual pleasure, and curbs on men's sexual freedom as a substitute for real power.
“In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.”
Ramsay MacDonald
(1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
Diary entry (20 March 1919), quoted in David Marquand, ‘ MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34704,’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009
1910s
“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Prose and Poetry
