“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.” MenLooksActionFightingPoorDangerHe ManOughtBattleCriticismFunctionStressMereCriticsDeedsSubstitutesIndispensableUsefulnessSubordinatesDoers Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.” MenLyingProcessConditionsFunctionOne ManAbstractionMysticSubordinates Book:Women in Love Source: Women in Love
“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.” MenHe ManFunctionArmyEvery ManFrightenedLaddersSubordinatesContemptuous Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author
“I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.” ThinkingWellsMeanImportantFactsPoliticalCoursesNew YorkStandardsFunctionPressesCriticalLiberalismGatesDisagreeStrictDiscourseGuardianFringeNew York TimesSubordinatesPolitical DiscourseHow Far You Can Go Author:Noam Chomsky
“Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.” SelfGovernmentFearInterestFunctionDefenseThrownAnti WarSolePrimitiveGuardianSelf DefenseSubordinates Author:Jane Addams
“Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.” HumansPlaySpecialFunctionHuman ExperienceSubordinatesPlaying GamesAdaptive Author:Johan Huizinga