social function Quotes

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

We have moved beyond the point of trust being simply a key factor in product purchase or selection of employment opportunity; it is now the deciding factor in whether a society can function.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

We should have a national policy whereby in law and its administration no distinctions on the basis of sex should be made except such as are reasonably justified by differences in physical structure, biological or social function.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

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

Ownership is a social function, to be exercised within the objectives of the Society and the plans of the State.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Society can't function without shared prosperity.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.