Best function & social Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.”

Social Space Cities Policy Healthy Safe Function Aim Democratic Meetings Urges Architect Sustainability Urban Urgent Lively Integrated Democratic Society Planners

Book:Cities for People

Source: Cities for People

“Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.”

Important Social Process Decision Produce Majors Function Institutions Mere Backgrounds Decision Making Minors Supplements Important Decisions Decision Making Process Social Capital

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.”

Men Able Individual Social Function Aim Fellows Competition Valuable Fellow Man Social Systems

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“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

“No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.”

Giving Individual Social Members Function Social Status Social Power

Book:The Future of Industrial Man

Source: The Future of Industrial Man

“The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.”

Men Body Reality Social Conditions Events Truth Is Shapes News Function Social Conditions

Author:Walter Lippmann

“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

“The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.”

Mind Kind Social Process Function Conception Definite

Book:The Political Writings

Source: The Political Writings

“We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.”

Believe Country Form Left Social Views Party Democracy Policy Expression Function Wings Labour Socialist Marxist Labour Party Social Democracy

Author:Anthony Crosland

“A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.”

Knows Whole Government Social Leader Know How Economic Function Unions Including University Economic Systems Systems Of Government

Author:Jean Chretien

“I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.”

Source: Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank

“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

“Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.”

Artist Social Function Remains Unanswered

Author:Jorg Immendorff

“The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.”

Humans May Social Essence Function Leisure Embedded

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.”

People Ifs Important Ideas Problem Home Young Political Values Social Views Share Students College Argument Function Proportion Professors Odds Popularity Entitled Outrage Social Values

Author:Ellen Willis

“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

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.”

Mean War States Social Term Military Type Cost Shapes Destruction Function Productions Readiness Drained Just War Cost Of War

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.”

Ifs Should Together Jobs Force Social Company Support Models Concern Female Tasks Organization Function Psychological Related Deficiency Sociability Task Forces Positive Image

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“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

“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”

People School Social Function Institutions Prison

Author:Michel Foucault

“(...) 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”

“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.”

“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.”

Ifs War Names Social Class Drug Racism Function War On Drugs Social Control

Author:David Simon

“Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height”

Mind Asks Social Brain Areas Function Dues Height Meaningless Psychiatry Width Rectangles

Author:Leon Eisenberg

“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”

Ifs Made Funny Death Social Party Dying Function Favors Grants Disturbing Pumpkin Tiptoes Sneaking Up Sneaking Around Sneaking Out

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.”

Art Poetry Language Social Return Function Narrative Narrative Art

Author:Ron Silliman

“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.”

Want Children Play Social Parent Differences Roles Identity Skills Areas Function Critical Close Friends Social Skills Close Friendship

Author:Zick Rubin

“The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.”

World Different Religion Social Religious Function Strategy Killing Individuality Valuable Quitting Someday Luminous Killing Each Other

Book:The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

Source: The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

“Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.”

Giving Social Church Pleasure Drug Band Concerned Roots Function Dancing Halls Concerts Marching Band

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.”

Needs Important Sometimes Political Social Can Do Ordinary Function Mere Welcome Prose Distraction Agitation

Author:Howard Zinn

“The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man's nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of the cerebral diseases or when helping us to have a more pleasant and constructive life. It is a thing that one could explore well.”

Men Wells Helping Social Disease Function Pleasant Treatment Neuroscience Constructive Cerebral

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.”

Father Social Particular Function Obligation Interpretation True Patriotism Social Obligation

Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"”

People Ifs Bigs Lasts Faces Social Attention Watches Wife Heard Dog New York Expression Seasons Function Crowds Corners Sat Sigh Inventor Unnoticed Resigned

Author:Edmund Fuller

“Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.”

Social Term Powerful Behavior Function Guilt

Author:David D. Burns

“Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.”

People World Feels Kind Important Jobs Life Is Values Social Risk Dangerous This World Photography Function Documentaries Documentary Photography

Author:James Nachtwey

“The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.”

Ifs Humans Social Function Enterprise

Book:A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century

Source: A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century

“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.”

“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”

Mean Hands Social Taken Special Limits Function Crisis Productions Credit Driving Capitalist Vehicle Banking Distribution Banking System

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

“We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.”

People Doe Real States Hands Government Individual Energy Social Progress Economic Source Function Institutions Harm Bridges Remove Ingenuity

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.”

People Values Social Process Liberty Democracy Judging Function Constitution Agendas Framers

Author:Robert Bork

“The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.”

Social Economic Function Competition Productions

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.”

Ifs Social Function Guru Introverted

Author:Dani Shapiro

“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.”

School Individual Social Environment Influence Function Various Diverse Disposition Social Environment Coordinating

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.”

People Knows Helping Home Belief Social Numbers Car Internet Activity Office Function Entertainment Manage Devices Application Equipment Social Life Large Numbers Manageable Appliances

Author:Vinton Cerf

“Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.”

People Thinking Persons Able Together Political Social Worry Plans Elements Computer Organization Function Unions Tendencies Atoms Units Get Together

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.”

People Thinking Persons Bigs Able Social Differences Walks Interesting Rooms Function Complicated Charming Ceo Most Interesting Psychopath Sociopath

Author:Patrick Heusinger

“The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."”

Should Social Wealth Security Should Have Function Rational Conception Motivated Isolated Social Security

Author:Noam Chomsky

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