The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon Hill

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mohandas Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi

The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington

The object of art is to give life a shape.
William Shakespeare

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco Chanel

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Samuel Goldwyn

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton