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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.
jeremy bentham— Advise to a young girl (22 June 1830)
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.
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.
[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,
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.
anthony daniels— Frontpage Magazine Interview (August 31, 2005)
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))
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
jacques-yves cousteau— Interview (17 July 1971)
This president is a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the economy and he's got to be replaced.
— In a presidential debate on September 4, 2003
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!
ernesto 'che' guevara— As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
charles a. reich— Chapter V :, Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 107
I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I would be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.
selassie, haile i, of ethiopia— Interview with Bill McNeil.
The heart opens itself to the hope that the misfortunes of the past will be replaced by fruitful dialogue.
— "Pope Speaks in Rome Synagogue, in the First Such Visit on Record" by E. J. Dionne Jr, The New York Times, 13 April 1986, retrieved 9 August 2010.
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
jamie zawinski— "Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment"
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
Friedrich Engels— Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1843)
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not “abolished.” It dies out.
Friedrich Engels— Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (1901)
And yet, in these old women it was as if, through the various tragedies of Mexican history, pity, the impulse to approach, and terror, the impulse to escape (as one had learned at college), having replaced it, had finally been reconciled by prudence, the conviction it is better to stay where you are.
malcolm lowry— Ch. VIII (pp. 248-249)
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.
karl marx— Early Writings, translated by T. B. Bottomore, p. 159
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
karl marx— Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734
Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.
Margaret Mead— p.161 (Male and female, 1949)
The existing pseudo-government which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognised by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives.
joseph stalin— "What We Need", editorial published (24 Ocober 1917), as quoted in Stalin : A Biography (2004) by Robert Service; also in Sochineniya, Vol. 3, p. 389Variant translation:The present imposter government, which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people, must be replaced by a government recognized by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants, and held accountable to their representativesAs quoted in The Bolsheviks Come to Power : The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (2004) by Alexander Rabinowitch, p. 252
I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters... "Betrayal"... "Confrontation"... "Management"... My God, you'd need a more supple language than that to describe an argument between two amoebas.
tom stoppard— Milne, Act I
Just like that, a single phone call erased one possible, horrendous future and replaced it with the bright certainty that God had answered the prayers of thousands and that their beloved Abby was coming home.
abby sunderland— p. 179 (Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (Thomas Nelson))
Enlightenment 'seminars', so to speak, have (largely) replaced LSD, self religions of the seminar variety now being of very considerable significance.
— Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen, Jan Berting, Frank Lechner (1995). The Search for Fundamentals: The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning. Springer. p. 147. ISBN 978-0792335429.
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.
— George Perkins Marsh, "The Study of Nature", The Christian Examiner, 1860, 67, 40.
The study of human societies and economics is of great importance, and it is not the purpose of the book to suggest otherwise. Rather it is to argue that conventional economics offers a very misleading view of how the world actually operates, and that it needs to be replaced.
— Preface to the Paperback Edition, p. vii
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 3 (Sourced)
The Republican party is simply not interested in small government now. They're worse than the Democrats they replaced.
— Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, as quoted in "US spending surges to historic level" by Gail Russell Chaddock, in The Christian Science Monitor (8 December 2003)
One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in “spirit” was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.
paul tillich— Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be (1952), p. 82
