T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The function of posterity is to look after itself.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“The function of president in France is one of significant symbolic value; it can't be compared with that of prime minister or cabinet member. Everything you do, everything you say - but also what you don't say - suddenly has meaning. That might sound quite formidable or even stressful, but I think it is a product of the history of this role.”
“The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.”
“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”
“The function of sensuality is to create dreams, not to answer problems and needs.”
“The function of sensuality is to create dreams, not to fix problems and needs.”
“The function of small corner shops in maintaining cities as viable social institutions does not appear in the Washington consensus. The possibility that corner shops may do better at safeguarding social cohesion than mass imprisonment is considered outlandish – if it is considered at all.”
“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”
“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”
Source: On Television
“The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.”
Source: Liberalism
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”
“The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.”
“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.”
“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.”
“The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.”
Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.”
Source: The Art of Romare Bearden
“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”
“The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.”
“The function of the bridge is to mind the gap; the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene.”
Source: It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
“The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.”
“The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.”
Source: Summerhill: for & against
“The function of the church for both young and old is not to give us on Sundays certain kinds of experiences different from experiences of the every day. The function of the church is rather to teach us how to put religious and ethical qualities into all kinds of experiences.”
“The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.”
Source: Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater
“The function of the ego is to test reality. However, the ego subverts this function if it begins to dictate the nature of reality instead of merely testing it. This happens when the ego denies its subservience to the body and asserts its supremacy. It is then like the hero who, after liberating the populace from one form of tyranny, becomes a dictator and subjects it to another. The ego originally functioned to protect the personality against witchcraft and sorcery. Now it beguiles the personality with words and images.”
Source: The Betrayal of the Body
“The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.”
“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”
“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.”
“The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Frank Norris (Illustrated)
“The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.”
“The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.”
“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.”
Source: A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.”
“The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.”
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.”
“The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.”
Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“The function of the state and of its structures in such a society are limited only to that which cannot be performed by anyone else. [Quoting Valclad Havel]”
Source: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
“The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.”
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.”
Source: Ends and Means
“The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.”
Source: Bangkok Haunts
“The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.”
“The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.”
“The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.”
“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.”
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.”
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)
“The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.”