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«As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions»
Author: Elizabeth Fee
| About:
Discrimination,
Science
| Keywords:
classes, distinctions, entrenched, entrenches, legitimize, legitimizes, political science, races, rationalize, rationalized, sexes, social class, social classes, social function, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences
«In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.»
Author: Ernst Fischer
(Chemist, Educator)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
decay, decaying, reflect, social change, social changes, social function, truthful
«If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Social service
| Keywords:
sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, social function, The Party, tiptoe, tiptoed
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
biological, bonds, by and large, ceremony, courtship, economically, elaborate, elaborated, evolved, go together, insemination, insertion, mammal, mammals, mate, mounting, one species, rely, rituals, scarcely, seconds, social function, sole, species, term
«The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
biological, convert, reproduction, reproductions, social function, symbols
«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.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
as such, does not exist, social function, vacuum
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