Function Quotes

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.