Famous quotes containing the words function and/or defined:
“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)