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“The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.”

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Author:Georg Baselitz

“Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.”

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Book:Points of Friction

Source: Points of Friction

“Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.”

Change Enemy Function Myth Ritual Legends Status Quo Coping Counterproductive

Book:Powers of the weak

Source: Powers of the weak

“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.”

Art Self Social Change Community Function Primaries Redefining

Author:Thomas McEvilley

“A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.”

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Author:Eric Topol

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

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

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Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”

“But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.”