Best function & community Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.”

People Way Want Mind Art House Community Essentials Clothes Understood Art Is Skins Function West Stores Supposed To Be Scholar Groceries Grocery Stores

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.”

Men Mean Might Certain Order Community Class Exercise Gold Function Mediums Silver Metals Commodity Gold And Silver Precious Metal

Book:Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Source: Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

“Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.”

Helping Individual Belief Strong Community Share Atheism Elements Function Positive Atheism Binding Primacy

Author:Frans de Waal

“As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.”

May Values Community Democracy Members Function Raises Humble Conception

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“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

“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests”

“Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.”

Community Wonder Teach Saws Teaching Healthy Function Philosopher Inevitable Accusation Outraged

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.”

Ifs World Trying Firsts Two Problem Three Community Deals Generations Groups Modern Normal Function Organized Fades Diminish World Problems Three Generations Normal Family

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but not within the treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent. For an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind... John Major deserves high praise for ensuring at Maastricht that we would not have either a Single Currency or the absurd provisions of the Social Chapter forced upon us: our industry, workforce, and national prosperity will benefit as a result.”

“An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.”

“Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.”

People Real Together Community Mass Accounts Function

Author:John Zerzan

“Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.”

Way Seems Community Function Radio Britain Very Popular

Author:John Gimlette

“The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.”

Thinking World Want Needs Humans Ideas Faces Culture Community Wonder Conditions Function Unions Communicate Statements Uncertainty Human Condition Overreaching Imminent Death

Author:Justin Adams

“Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.”

Community Poverty Violence Drug Function African American Joblessness Availability

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.”

“The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows an institution that is set up in terms of the role and function and powers of the institutional traditional leadership ( borrows that committee and uses that committee).”

Use Term Community Roles Rights Land Function Institutions Bills Traditional Manage Committees

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.”

Firsts Humans Reason Shows Earth Form Courses Father Community Human Beings Perfect Destiny Judging Kings Lovers Function Army Beloved Prophet Rulers Commanders Muhammad Arabia Medina

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.”

Important Play Helping Community Roles Support Groups Function Locals Corporations Fund Suspects Discharge

Author:David Rockefeller

“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”

“It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.”

“A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts Wells Mean Faith Culture Community Source Function Invention Rational Alternatives Attractive Relativity Other Cultures Society And Culture

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.”

“When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.”

“The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.”

Men Ideas Philosophy Political Community Study Economic Citizens Economics Function Aim Every Man Economist Civics

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

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