Best function & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.”

People Kind Certain Order Responsibility Function Mechanism Regulation Enforcement Delegates Rules And Regulations

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.”

Needs Different Law Order Asks Records Subjects Effects Produce Demand Function Lays Rewards Discourse Obliged Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.”

“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”

Ifs Body Order Animal Team Conditions Machines Function Structure Mechanism Laborers

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”

Form Order Bits Imagination Common Half Saws Fronts Creation Daughter Function Common Sense Aspiration Dozen Delightful Faded Multiplicity Amiable Parlor Scandalous Dandy

Author:Vera Nazarian

“A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.”

Order Social Economy Intellectual Function Threat Minimum Free Society Social Order Anathema

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.”

Soul Care Spirit Order Imagination Church Function Curiosity University Intellect Enthusiasm Immortal Priests Who Cares Props Immortal Soul

Book:The progress of a biographer

Source: The progress of a biographer

“The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.”

Mean Political Order Social Taken Produce Function Notion Anarchy Anarchism Transactions Social Order

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.”

Giving Kind Persons Order Possibility Communication Concerned Function Instruments Regulation Traffic Strict

Book:Behavior in Public Places

Source: Behavior in Public Places

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Order Flower Civilization Function Painful Saved Boredom Shakes Rebel Apathy Shaking

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Doe School Form Order Universe Consciousness Function Fundamentals Hopefully Universality

Author:Vanna Bonta

“The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.”

Two Helping Political Order Social Party Essentials Function Social Order Electoral Systems

Author:Michael Parenti

“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

“For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.”

School Political Order Individual Social Interest Function Conservative Disguise Socialist Axioms

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.”

People Knows Kind Order Belief Moral Know How Function Code Deities Moral Code

Author:Mel Gibson

“. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.”

Knows Mind Order Universe Highest Function Regard Orderly

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.”

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.”

People Heart Together Order Nations Quality Possibility Function Patience Working Together Diplomacy Civility Personal Qualities Lawfulness

Author:M. J. Ryan

“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”

Knows Ideas Different Science Order Understanding Answers Events Concern Function Increase Philosophical Reports Interpretation Implications Factual Philosophical Questions

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.”

“It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.”

Facts Order Lows Function Mathematical Fortunate Surprising

Author:Rudolf Carnap

“Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.”

Needs Moving Order Force Process Creativity Practice Function Muscles

Book:Trust the Process

Source: Trust the Process

“As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.”

“The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.”

Mind Firsts Order Function Parachutes

Author:Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

“The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.”

Order Universe Quality Roles Divine Particular Higher Judgment Angel Function Administration Humankind Serving God Thrones

Book:In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

Source: In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”

Reality Seems Order Next Lost Greater Television Function Structure Determine Newspapers Magazines Cinema Retreat Imperatives Accord Interpreting Signifying

Author:Douglas Crimp

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals

“The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.”

Knows Way Order Growth Attitude Conditions Function Structure Plant Gardener

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.”

Men Body Christian Spirit Order Christ Church Forget Holy Function Ghost Hopeless Limbs Holy Ghost Unified Body Of Christ

Book:The Way to Pentecost

Source: The Way to Pentecost

“From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.”

“If we speak about fundamental things, regulation of the rate is actually the function of the main regulator, namely the function of the Central Bank. And it should think of how the economy and industry react, but also of its fundamental tasks in order to ensure the stability of the rate.”

Ifs Thinking Should Order Speak Economy Industry Tasks Function Fundamentals Rate Stability Regulation Central Banks Regulators

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.”

Real Order Asks Left Process Lines Brain Company Creativity Creative Function Bottom Creative Process Bottom Line Accounting Organizational Left Brain

Author:John Kao

“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.”

Two Different Order Sides Levels Fields Particular Function Construction Artwork Different Levels

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it.”

People Matter Able Order Stuff Pay Taxes Musician Function Bills Stealing Our Family Frustrating Millionaire

Author:Matt Snell

“Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.”

Wells Real Character Shows Order Taught Shots Function Cameras Tired Allowing Interiors Taught Us

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.”

Writing Book Order Chance Numbers Quality Four Color Huge Higher Cost Paper Ocean Function Sells Expensive Customs Telephones Printing Packing Inventory Shipping Huge Numbers Clearance

Author:Dan Poynter

“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”

Giving Writing Feelings Order Literature Enjoy Function Tension Milk Cows Relieved

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.”

Order Goal Ought Concerned Function Designer Engineers

Author:Herbert Simon

“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”

Government Political Order Politics Function Determine Servant Temporary Patriot Prerogative

Book:The Bible According to Mark Twain

Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain

“The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.”

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others’ pain and loss.”

Pain Order Loss Walks Function Painful Layers Shells Smooth Pearls Particles Immune Grit Oysters American Gods Pain And Loss

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.”

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.”

“We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.”

Order Policy Concern Function Immigration Variety Generous Our Society Immigrants Illegal Illegal Immigrants Immigration Policy

Author:Madeleine Albright

“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.”

Giving May Littles Joy Order Voice Love Is Creative Love You Masters Self Love Function Active Passive Back Again Enslavement Outgoing

Author:Bernard Iddings Bell

“If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.”

Ifs Men Humans Problem Wisdom Order Destiny Function Intelligence Solve Intellect

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.”

Needs Funny Order Music Cases Air Humorous Function Hot Constant Lawyer Clarinet Hot Air Mouthpiece

Author:Victor Borge

“The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.”

“The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.”

Needs Writing Kind Art Bigs Past Artist Order Universe Space Fiction Greater Focus Trouble Creatures Function Science Fiction

Author:Philip J. Klass

“The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”

Persons Government Order Democracy Waste Capitalism Ideals Vote Function Instruments Dollars Productions Collectives Superstitions Consumption Trash

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

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