(388 quotes found)
“I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions”
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
“The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.”
Valerie Solanas
“Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.”
Gerry Spence
“The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.”
Benito Mussolini
“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party”
Dag Hammarskjold
“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
Walter Benjamin
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.”
William Orville Douglas
“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
William S. Burroughs
“Form follows function.”
Louis Henri Sullivan
