“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.” ThinkingLooksPersonsGrowsMemoriesTakenAlivePhotographyFunctionPhotographRelateLife ExperienceInvitations Author:Jason Fulford
“Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.” HumanityIndividualTakenCapitalismFunctionCollectivesEmancipation Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“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.” MeanPoliticalOrderSocialTakenProduceFunctionNotionAnarchyAnarchismTransactionsSocial Order Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.” MatterGovernmentPurposeIndividualLeftSidesReligiousPrayerTakenAtheismCitizensExerciseConscienceFunctionMerePositive AtheismInstanceSoleSecularAcknowledgment Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb
“Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.” MenLongTodayLawValuesCultureHalfTakenWeekMessagesFemaleAbuseFunctionMalesKillingInjusticeValuableSentencesOur SocietyJailMisogynyInfidelityEquationsAdultery Author:Anna Quindlen
“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.” IfsReasonBigsAbilityTechnologyTakenBecomingLosingFunctionDependentIncidents Author:Bruce Boxleitner
“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.” MeanHandsSocialTakenSpecialLimitsFunctionCrisisProductionsCreditDrivingCapitalistVehicleBankingDistributionBanking System Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3 Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3