The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality. — Plato Copy Share Image
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate… — Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits Copy Share Image
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was… — Conrad Rudolph Copy Share Image
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image