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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))
This president is a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the economy and he's got to be replaced.
dick gephardt— 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
Canada's position was Saddam Hussein should be disarmed. Now, to be quite honest, I had a lot of difficulty understanding how he was going to be disarmed without being replaced.
paul martin— Ottawa Citizen (April 28, 2003)
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"
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.
wystan hugh auden— "The Poet & The City", p.83
In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.
wystan hugh auden— "Lame Shadows", p. 410
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)
We lived like that “Happy Family“ you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.
robert a. heinlein— Chapter 7 (Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958))
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)
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
ilana mercer— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
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))
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 15 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
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— p. 82 (The Courage to Be (1952))
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)
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.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 19 (Sourced)
However, the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified, As Kay Holloway wrote, the failure of the signatories to bring the treaty into force ‘resulted in the abandonment of thousands of defenceless peoples Armenians and Greeks to the fury of their persecutors, by engendering subsequent holocausts in which the few survivors of the 1915 Armenian massacres perished.” The Treaty of Sevres was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 that included a ‘Declaration of Amnesty’ for all offences committed between 1 August 1914 and 20 November 1922.
— William Schabas, Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes, p.22
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
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
There is the illusion of "increased command over Nature ," meaning that cotton is cheap and that ten miles of country road on a bicycle have replaced four on foot.
— George Bernard Shaw, in Caesar and Cleopatra, The Floating Press, 1 June 2011, p.154
"People often think that Europeans are homogeneous group that arrived in a simple way there maybe 40 or 50 thousand years ago maybe based on the archaeology and just kind of sat there until they became the Europeans they are today, but that's probably not true: the Europeans today are a replacement population who came in much more recently and replaced the people who were there originally 40 thousand years ago."
— David Reich, "History Aids Understanding Diseases Today" (20 July 2012), National Science Foundation.
