“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentPurposeMillionsThousandHundredFunctionEmploymentAppropriateFortyEmployed Author:James A. Garfield
“[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.” MenIndividualPrinciplesMillionsMassVoteFunctionDemocraticBackgroundsVotingOne ManSmallestUnitsPollsSecrecyHelplessnessAnonymityPitifulIndivisibleIrresponsibilityInarticulate Author:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.” YearsChildrenAbleFatherAnimalMillionsFiveSonDevelopmentThousandDaughterYears AgoFunctionSpeciesMy DaughterMy SonCrucialThousand YearsPatriarchyFarmingCoveringShort TimeRoosters Author:Frank Pittman
“Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.” PeopleNeedsEarthMillionsFunctionEntertainmentCinemaDistraction Author:Claude Lelouch
“In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred.” HomeSeemsPrayerSleepMillionsStreetsEventsParticularEatingIndiaFunctionSacredWestSecularAsiaNursingCrudeDentistryBodily Functions Author:Steve McCurry
“A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his function is far more difficult. And only very few people can stay with a Master because to wake up after millions of lives is not an ordinary feat; it is a miracle. And to allow somebody to wake you up needs great trust, great surrender.” PeopleNeedsDifferentRealLife IsDifficultMillionsTeacherMastersOrdinaryFunctionMiracleWake UpSurrenderFeatsWakes You Author:Rajneesh
“I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.” ThinkingWorldWellsLittlesMillionsGroupsFunctionRelationCooperatives Author:Bill Mollison
“I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.” PeopleDoeAgeYoungMillionsAudienceSawsTestsFunctionResponseDrivingCuriousReleaseDriversYoutubePhenomenalTextingTexting And Driving Author:Werner Herzog
“All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.” ChildrenKidsScienceParentMillionsFiveBedFunctionChinaMathComplainingSixtyEquationsStop ComplainingQuadraticsQuadratic Equation Author:Michael Cunningham
“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.” MenMayImportantUseWould BeUsedFreedomMillionsPossibilityParticularExerciseFunctionImportanceMajorityGrantsOne ManBeneficialBeing Free Author:Friedrich August von Hayek