#function

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#exploited #function #goods #household #how

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#behaviour #breakdown #case #classic #containing

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me. ↗

— Peter Steele

#car #clean #definite #functions #hardcore

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#art #criticism #dislike #function #help

And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#dysfunction #dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #dysfunctional-relationship #family

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#being #briefly #duty #find #first

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#democracy #freely #function #institutions #must

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#created #critic #function #never #proper

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#best #every #find #function #give

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#built #changed #correctly #environment #function