Function

Famous quotes containing the word function:

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Morality and its victim, the mother—what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)