Social Functions Quotes

#1. This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Steven Weinberg

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

Michel Foucault

#3. Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion ... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Peter Drucker

#5. 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.

Dani Shapiro

#6. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. In fact, I should probably charge money to all the normal people to simply not go to your social functions and ruin them.

Jenny Lawson

#7. I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#8. 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.

Muhammad Yunus

#9. Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.

Ryan Holmes

#10. My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

Andres Serrano

#11. 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.

Jean Chretien

#12. As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Steve Israel

#13. All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.

Peter Singer

#14. All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

Zachary Cole Smith

#15. Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Herman Melville

#16. Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Havelock Ellis

#17. I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

Amanda Hocking

#18. To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Yolanda King

#19. Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

Richard Hornby

#20. What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Parker Palmer

#21. 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.

Coleman Barks

#22. The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.

Herbert Hoover

#23. 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.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#24. You cannot say, "I will look it up." Your birthday and social security number are things you look up; trigonometric functions and identities are what you know all the time.

Ramamurti Shankar

#25. My dad was a Methodist minister.

George McGovern

#26. Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system. The

Michelle Alexander

#27. Not dancing well, I never danced at all
and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Walter Savage Landor

#28. The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Havelock Ellis

#29. I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

Harry Browne