Functionalist Paradigm Quotes & Sayings

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women. — Betty Dodson

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. — Jimmy Carter

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between? — Arthur Conan Doyle

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one. — James Ellroy

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. — Jimmy Swaggart

I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end. — Casey Neistat

A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right. — Shannon Dittemore

Justice is horrible. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else. — Lights

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might. — Robin Wasserman

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. — Joe R. Lansdale

You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is questioning why you have masters at all.
All these stories, all these fantasies, all these superpowers - are designed to steal heroism from you, to make it impossible, fantastical, remote, and unachievable - and make you useful to your masters (as a hit man, if needed). What is the opposite of this?
The opposite of fantasy is philosophy. The opposite of mythology is integrity. And integrity is truth in action. — Stefan Molyneux

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit. — T. R. Knight

If each man, on hearing a wise maxim, immediately looked to see how it properly applied to him, he would find that it was not so much a pithy saying as a whiplash applied to the habitual stupidity of his faculty of judgement. — Michel De Montaigne