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"The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers." »Earl Nightingale
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"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." »Peter Cooper
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"Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"Never fight an inanimate object." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The education of the will is the object of our existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry
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"The object of the superior man is truth." »Confucius
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it" »G. B. Shaw
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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." »George Smith Patton, Jr.
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"Education has for its object the formation of character." »Herbert Spencer
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"My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..." »W. S. Gilbert
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"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." »Man Ray
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"The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be" »Chauncey Wright
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"That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object." »Magha
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"The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form." »Francois Delsarte
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"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." »George Washington Allston
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"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." »Milan Kundera
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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." »Robert Hutchins
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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes
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"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger
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"Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being." »Hakim Jami
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