All 36 Uses of
function
in
Atlas Shrugged
- If you have the intelligence to keep this corrupt organization functioning at all, you have the intelligence to judge this for yourself.†
Chpt 1.4
- Its style of indolent luxury, of velvet drapes, sculptured panels and candlelight, seemed a deliberate contrast to its function: no one could afford its hospitality except men who came to New York on business, to settle transactions involving the world.†
Chpt 1.5
- He concentrated on the relief of the mirror's cooling touch, wondering how one went about forcing one's mind into blankness, particularly after a lifetime lived on the axiom that the constant, clearest, most ruthless function of his rational faculty was his foremost duty.†
Chpt 1.6
- I'll start rolling the Metal" "Don't you want to ask whether the John Galt Line is in a position to place orders or to function?"†
Chpt 1.7
- She could not understand the peculiar design of its parts or the functions they were intended to perform.†
Chpt 1.9
- She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!†
Chpt 1.10
- He watched the patch of green and sunlight on the distant hill, the promise of spring in a world that looked as if no grass or bud would ever function again.†
Chpt 2.1
- It's practically impossible to drag you to any social function, but I thought you might do it like this, on the spur of the moment, just to go out and have a good time, as married couples are supposed to.†
Chpt 2.2
- A tail of figures kept trailing and shifting behind him, as if their function were to give him the pleasure of ignoring them.†
Chpt 2.2
- "Well, Mr. Rearden," he said, by way of greeting, "I didn't know that even a hardened hound of public functions and shaker of famous hands, like myself, could still get a thrill out of meeting an eminent man, but that's what I feel right now, believe it or not."†
Chpt 2.3
- The men who think that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning, are the men who think-for the same reason-that sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of one's mind, choice or code of values.†
Chpt 2.4
- …fuel to Taggart Transcontinental, in the last week of December, Danagger's cousin explained that he could not help it; he had had to cut the workday down to six hours, he said, in order to raise the morale of the men who did not seem to function as they had in the days of his cousin Kenneth; the men had become listless and sloppy, he said, because they were exhausted by the harsh discipline of the former management; he could not help it if some of the superintendents and foremen had…†
Chpt 2.5
- She was watching the work, her glance intent and purposeful, the glance of competence enjoying its own function.†
Chpt 2.6
- Nor have I ever robbed a military vessel-because the purpose of a military fleet is to protect from violence the citizens who paid for it, which is the proper function of a government.†
Chpt 2.7
- We are the soul, of which railroads, copper mines, steel mills and oil wells are the body-and they are living entities that beat day and night, like our hearts, in the sacred function of supporting human life, but only so long as they remain our body, only so long as they remain the expression, the reward and the property of achievement.†
Chpt 2.8
- She had wanted to think of it, of all the questions she intended to ask him tomorrow-but she had found her mind frozen and still, like a spectator staring at the story, unable to function, only to stare.†
Chpt 2.10
- It's functioning?†
Chpt 3.1 *
- She was looking at the inventor of the motor, but what she saw was the easy, casual figure of a workman in his natural setting and function-she noted the uncommon lightness of his posture, a weightless way of standing that showed an expert control of the use of his body-a tall body in simple garments: a thin shirt, light slacks, a belt about a slender waistline-and loose hair made to glitter like metal by the current of a sluggish wind.†
Chpt 3.1
- She kept seeing his figure in her mind-his figure as he had stood at the door of the structure-she felt nothing else, no wish, no hope, no estimate of her feeling, no name for it, no relation to herself-there was no entity such as herself, she was not a person, only a function, the function of seeing him, and the sight was its own meaning and purpose, with no further end to reach.†
Chpt 3.1
- She kept seeing his figure in her mind-his figure as he had stood at the door of the structure-she felt nothing else, no wish, no hope, no estimate of her feeling, no name for it, no relation to herself-there was no entity such as herself, she was not a person, only a function, the function of seeing him, and the sight was its own meaning and purpose, with no further end to reach.†
Chpt 3.1
- But ask Dr. Hendricks whether any amount of blood will save a body that refuses to function, a rotten hulk that expects to exist without effort.†
Chpt 3.1
- Let the world discover who they are, what they do and what happens when they refuse to function.†
Chpt 3.1
- She saw a faint movement of his lips, like the release of a breath that he was forcing to function.†
Chpt 3.1
- She was speaking with a swift, bright certainty, conscious of nothing but the joy of performing her natural function in her natural world where nothing could take precedence over the act of offering a solution to a problem.†
Chpt 3.2
- She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her-and realized that she was thinking of herself.†
Chpt 3.2
- As to the function and the purpose of the sound ray, I shall say nothing.†
Chpt 3.3
- You see, it is not Mr. Mouch's function to ask permissions.†
Chpt 3.3
- She knew that the best among them, those of the longest range and most complex function, had long since gone-and those still struggling to produce, struggling savagely to preserve the code of an age when production had been possible, were now inserting into their contracts a line shameful to a descendant of Nat Taggart: "Transportation permitting."†
Chpt 3.5
- The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not.†
Chpt 3.7
- The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not.†
Chpt 3.7
- But a plant has no choice of action; there are alternatives in the conditions it encounters, but there is no alternative in its function: it acts automatically to further its life, it cannot act for its own destruction.†
Chpt 3.7
- Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive.†
Chpt 3.7
- …obscurity of menial employment, keeping to himself the fire of his mind, never giving it form, expression or reality, refusing to bring it into a world he despises-the man who is defeated by revulsion, the man who renounces before he has started, the man who gives up rather than give in, the man who functions at a fraction of his capacity, disarmed by his longing for an ideal he has not found-they are on strike, on strike against unreason, on strike against your world and your values.†
Chpt 3.7
- The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.†
Chpt 3.7
- But you expect industrial giants-who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts-to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort.†
Chpt 3.7
- We required that you leave us free to function-free to think and to work as we choose-free to take our own risks and to bear our own lossesfree to earn our own profits and to make our own fortunes-free to gamble on your rationality, to submit our products to your judgment for the purpose of a voluntary trade, to rely on the objective value of our work and on your mind's ability to see it-free to count on your intelligence and honesty, and to deal with nothing but your mind.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(function as in: Its main function is to...) purpose, job, or natural activity