Public Function

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or function:

“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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