Famous quotes containing the word perform:
“Institutions—government, churches, industries, and the like—have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)