Essential Function Quotes by Kenneth Burke

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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence
• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and… — Will Burtin
• Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke
• What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.… — Mark Twain
• But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. — Benjamin Tucker
• ...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all… — Henri Bergson
• You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky

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