Function Quotes - Page 12

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.

I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.

There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.