Function Quotes

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. (Norman Mailer)
The function of man is to live, not to exist. View quote
Jack London
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. View quote
Ralph Nader
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. View quote
Louis Brandeis
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. View quote
George Eliot
I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise. View quote
Vangelis
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. (William S. Burroughs)
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. View quote
E. M. Forster
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. View quote
Emil Cioran
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. View quote
George Santayana
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. (David Brinkley)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. View quote
Ernst Fischer
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. View quote
Cicero