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)