Aims Quotes

370 Aims quotes by 295 unique authors

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. — Wilhelm Dilthey
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a… — Henry Moore
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess
Resistanceâ€™s goal is not to wound or disable.Â Resistance aims to kill — Steven Pressfield
Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated. — David White
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement… — Rosalind Franklin
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in… — James Q. Wilson
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this… — Aristide Briand
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to… — Sheila Jeffreys
A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it.… — Thomas R. Pickering
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of… — Joseph Campbell
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who… — Simon Sebag-Montefiore
With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior… — Steve Paxton
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements… — Hermann Weyl
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status… — C.D. Wright
Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does… — Tom Wells
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice,… — C L R James
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. — Eric Hoffer
A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to… — Unknown Author
One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears. — Christian Tissier

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