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For too long, society has resembled a pyramid that has been turned upside down and made to rest on its summit. I have replaced it on its base.
— 1852 Speech to the Legislative Assembly, 29 Mar.
These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.
Michael Moore— Dude, Where's My Country?. 2003. ISBN 0446532231. OCLC 53112245.
Over the past thirty years, we have replaced the medical-political persecution of illegal sex users ("perverts" and "psychopaths") with the even more ferocious medical-political persecution of illegal drug users.
thomas szasz— p. xi (The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997))
The world isaglobal campus,Hilary, you'd betterbelieve it. The American Express card has replaced the library pass.
— 1984 Small World, pt.1, ch.2.
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.
Malcolm Muggeridge— 1966 Tread Softly forYouTread on My Jokes.
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.
Robert Owen— Life of Robert Owen (1857) his autobiography, as quoted by Jim Herrick, in "Bradlaugh and Secularism: 'The Province of the Real'" (1990)
If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!
arno allan penzias— Autobiography, Arno Penzias, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 (provided in 2004)
I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn’t very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn’t doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional."Of course, there isn’t any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
jon postel— When asked "What do you think of being called a god?" in "Heavenly Father of the NET", an interview article in NetWorker (Summer 1997); This refers to a statement "if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel", which appeared in the British magazine The Economist.
"Educational" refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
terry pratchett— In response to a comment that if television is educational because watching it can teach you a lot about society, then a cheeseburger is also educational, alt.fan.pratchett (15 October 1996)
[if the automobile is replaced by public trans port] the social structure of cities will revert to the ecological pattern of 1880.
kenneth boulding— p.257 as cited in D.S. Houghton, B.J. Shaw (1982) "The city in an era of restricted car usage: Some further observations and policy responses". In: Geoforum. Vol 13, Issue 1, p.19–25,
The entire center of her life was a blackened waste, its long years not to be recovered nor replaced.
lois mcmaster bujold— p. 125 (Cryoburn (2010))
It was, as we know, not so much eradicated as replaced by a Communist orthodoxy after 1949. And when this orthodoxy began to lose its grip on the Chinese public after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, Chinese officials struggled to find a new set of beliefs to justify their monopoly on power. The ideological hybrid that followed Maoism was "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," a mixture of state capitalism with political authoritarianism.
Ian Buruma— Battling the Information Barbarians China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google.
The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.
Randall Jarrell— "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket," Daedalus, vol. 89, no. 2 (Spring 1960); published in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962)
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
carl jung— p. 209 (Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933))
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
neil kinnock— Tribune (November 19, 1976)
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.
Lewis Mumford— Myth of Megalopolis
We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
chester w. nimitz— As quoted in Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States (1969), by United States Naval History Division, United States Navy, p. 24
Today a new faith is awakening the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that mystery which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.
alfred rosenberg— Heute erwacht aber ein neuer Glaube: der Mythus des Blutes, der Glaube, mit dem Blute auch das göttliche Wesen des Menschen überhaupt zu verteidigen. Der mit hellstem Wissen verkörperte Glaube, dass das nordische Blut jenes Mysterium darstellt, welches die alten Sakramente ersetzt und überwunden hat. (Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts ("The Myth of the Twentieth Century") - Page 65 - 1930)
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
george sarton— Preface (A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952))
One of the first major steps in the direction of modern skepticism came through the victory of Occam over Aquinas in a controversy about language. The statement that modi essendi were replaced by modi significandi et intelligendi, or that ontological referents were abandoned in favor of pragmatic significations, describes broadly the change in philosophy which continues to our time. From Occam to Bacon, from Bacon to Hobbes, and from Hobbes to contemporary semanticists, the progression is clear: ideas become psychological figments, words become useful signs.
richard weaver— “The Power of the Word,” p. 36
In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced anti-Semitism against Jews
— Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (1996), Simon and Schuster, 2007, p.200
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.
thomas henry huxley— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.
Allan Bloom— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 59
In 1985, est was discontinued and replaced by a program called The Forum, which is very similar to est.
— James R. Lewis (2001). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books. p. 306. ISBN 1573928887.
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. It has replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras
— László Moholy-Nagy, his quote on the spirit of the century (1921); as quoted in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, page 93
Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
— Jamie Zawinski (who called it the "Law of Software Envelopment") [ ]
Thought is reified as an autonomous, automatic process, aping the machine it has itself produced, so that it can finally be replaced by the machine. Enlightenment pushed aside the classical demand to “think thinking.” ... . Mathematical procedure became a kind of ritual of thought.
— Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 19
