Function Objects

Famous quotes containing the words function and/or objects:

    “Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how to be men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.”
    —Frank Pittman (20th century)

    “Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short- term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”
    —Nelson Mandela (b. 1918)