Object Quotes

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. (Thomas Jefferson)
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. View quote
George Orwell
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. View quote
John Constable
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. View quote
Margaret Fuller
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object. View quote
Patrick Henry
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. View quote
David Hume
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. (Man Ray)
Every beloved object is the center of a paradise. View quote
Novalis
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
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. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
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. View quote
James Madison
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. View quote
George Boole
Education has for its object the formation of character. View quote
Herbert Spencer
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. View quote
Joan Miró
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. (Courtney Love)
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
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. View quote
William Beveridge