Quotes about Function

Nisbet recognized that communities that serve important social functions in our lives, such as families and parishes and social clubs, give structure to our day-to-day living, and thus contribute to our identity. But when the functions of these communities fade or are replaced, such as by the government, their strength as identity-forming institutions fades as well.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.