A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

I’m afraid Mr. Everhard is right,” he said. “LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost. As Mr. Everhard said the other night, the function you churchmen perform is to maintain the established order of society, and society is established on that foundation.” “But that is not the teaching of Christ!” cried the Bishop. “The.

The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the nature of the world we attend to, the very nature of the world in which those ‘functions’ would be carried out, and in which those ‘things’ would exist.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist

The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling of God.

I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn’t seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

When we fulfil our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our “creations,” are simply the notes of our observations.

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

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.

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn’t preparation for work and never was.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer’s point of view.

I’m on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man’s mind toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Form does not necessarily follow function

The function of the artist is to make people feel.

The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It’s useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.