All too often government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out containing problems and limiting the damage but in doing so supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Government is dysfunctional.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
One of the functions of an organization of any organism is to anticipate the future so that those relationships can persist over time.
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.
Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Doing things like playing music something that's so natural and basic to human function running around in nature eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic primordial to human beings so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas allowing my true personality to return.
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
Clearly America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
As you know Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society but on behalf of personality.
We fight a lot you know but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
The family only represents one aspect however important an aspect of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.