The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Gerry Spence

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
Frank Norris

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
John George Nicolay

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
Robert Anton Wilson

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom Robbins

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
Richard Carlson

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Frederick Pollock

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
Karen Duffy

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
Jacques Lacan

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
Lucian Freud

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
Daniel J. Bernstein

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan Bloom

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Robert Bork