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Objective Quotes (page 6)

Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power is to reinforce, strengthen and protect the principality, but with this last understood to mean not the objective ensemble of its subjects and territory, but rather the prince's relation with what he owns, with the territory he has inherited or acquired, and with his subjects. Michel Foucault
When describing me, Tracy often refers to a well-known concept of physics: 'inertia.' As Newton avers in his first law: 'An object that is not moving will not move until a force acts upon it. An object that is moving will not change its velocity until a net force acts upon it.' In other words, depending on what's happening in my life at any given moment, I can either be the laziest human being on the planet, or the busiest. I'm perfectly content to do absolutely nothing until I'm catalyzed by... Michael J. Fox
Roy Moore quote: "They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't..."
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. Roy Moore
George Michael quote: "With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's..."
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. George Michael
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body. George H. Mead
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. Northrop Frye
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. Erich Fromm
John Fowles quote: "That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see..."
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. John Fowles
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. James Joseph Sylvester
Warren Farrell quote: "For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex..."
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. Warren Farrell
Peter Drucker quote: "Management by objective works - if you know the objectives...."
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Peter Drucker
Les Dawson quote: "My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects."
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. Les Dawson
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. Edmund Husserl
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. Joseph Story
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space. Marcus V. Pollio

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