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Object Quotes by George Orwell
- The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
- A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
- The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The…
- ...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
- I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and…
- Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us…
- The object of power is power.
More Object Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting… — Arnold Bennett
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant