My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
Andres Serrano

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
Radha Mitchell

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
Francois Jacob

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Kevin Kelly

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
William Weld

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.
Frank Lautenberg

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
Robert Teeter

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.
Steve Jobs

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Emile M. Cioran

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.
Alphonso Jackson

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Henry Ellis

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Charles Hodge

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Kate Millett

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini