These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
Herbert Read

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
Louise Slaughter

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
David Bohm

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
Joseph Rotblat

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
Thomas Harrison

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Alfred Russel Wallace

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
John Drinkwater

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Bobby Scott

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Xavier Becerra

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
Adnan Pachachi

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William Burroughs

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
Rudolf Bing

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
Ricardo Lagos

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
Joey Skaggs