Quotes with object

Quotes 101 till 120 of 151.

  • James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sir Richard Steele The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • George Henry Lewes The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
    George Henry Lewes
    English philosopher and critic (1817 - 1878)
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  • Jean Genet The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Shakespeare The object of art is to give life a shape.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baron William Henry Beveridge The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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  • Henry Ford The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Wilson Woodrow The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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  • Robert Brault The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • T.B. Macauly The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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  • Sydney Smith The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • George S. Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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