“Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.” DoeWishDemocracyFunctionIntentionFulfilment Author:Wilhelm Reich
“What people "want" is a function of what they learn is available. If you wish to sell something, you'd better understand that you can't give people what they want in the market today, because what they want today is what they can already get. You have to discover what they really want, and find some way to give that physical shape.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingTodayWishShapesFunctionSellsAvailable Author:Erik Naggum
“No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.” MenBelieveDoeStillsChoicesFatherWishHusbandFunctionInstrumentsRaisedFulfillmentPrimeSaltHusband And Father Book:Essays in feminism Source: Essays in feminism
“Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?” IfsWayWellsMayPersonsSaidStoriesWishSecretRiskMembersFunctionCriticsGladBondageWish YouOh Well Author:Anne Lamott
“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live” LifePainHappinessDeathWishFearAchievementFunctionThreatRewardsSakePunishmentLive LifeNovelistsEarningAvoidingIncentivesPursuit Of HappinessEscapingFamous WomenAvoiding Death Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.” IfsLittlesGovernmentMightLawPoliticalWishLinesPowerfulRightsCitizensBehaviorOrdinaryFunctionConstitutionBillsMajoritySupremeLimitationRanOfficialsDescriptionMost PowerfulFederal GovernmentCrossingsBill Of RightsOrdinary Citizens Author:Glenn Greenwald
“I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.” PeopleGivingHas BeensBigsWould BeScienceWishResultsNumbersStudyExampleIllusionFunctionPrejudiceMethodComplexesExperimentsPsychologicalObservationMediocrePublishAmerican Author Author:Alfred Binet
“The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.” MenDoeStatesSeemsMovingForceWishCarFunctionHistoricalWheels Author:Vladimir Lenin