Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Marguerite Duras
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. Guy Debord
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. William Stanley Jevons
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming. Charles Kingsley
As one gets older, litigation replaces sex. Gore Vidal
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states. Kenneth Waltz