Function

Famous quotes containing the word function:

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

“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)