Dominant Function

Famous quotes containing the words dominant and/or function:

    The strongest and most effective [force] in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of ... power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
    Maurice Godelier (b. 1934)

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