Quotes about objection (3858 quotes, page 39)

“Protect our sacred places and objects, to denounce any desecrator, any suspect and any accomplice.”

Félicien Ntambue Kasembe (1970) roman-catholic clergyman

Bishop of DR Congo’s Kabinda Diocese Condemns Church Desecration in “the strongest terms” https://www.aciafrica.org/news/4178/bishop-of-dr-congos-kabinda-diocese-condemns-church-desecration-in-the-strongest-terms (August 27 2021)

“Regardless of whether the object of perception is physical and can thus be measured for colour, shape, and size, or whether what is being perceived is something more subtle like thought, feeling, and sensation, all are phenomena.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Feeling

“Everything you can perceive comes and goes, including your own body. You are the one looking at time, objects, and even thoughts and emotions.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Time

“To know that a human being truly is, he must be examined in the arena where he most fully realizes his nature, thus where he is most truly himself. Excellence (arete) is the object of ethics. Anthropology is therefore inseparable from ethics.”

Rémi Brague (1947) French historian

The Wisdom of the World, p. 2

Nature

“The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Personality

“I think any time you have an ensemble of actors, everyone’s objectives are unique and individual. So it’s hard for me to collectively say whether they were allies in this…. I do know that the way things got spun by the end changed my relationships with them.”

Daniel Dae Kim (1968) American actor

"Daniel Dae Kim Spoke Up to ‘Lost’ Creators Over Pilot’s Asian Stereotypes: ‘It Was a Land Mine’" in Indie Wire (12 April 2021) https://tvline.com/2021/04/12/daniel-dae-kim-hawaii-five-0-contract-dispute-interview/

Change , Time , Thinking , Way

“Initially what is important is to be able to successfully make a useful object over which the maker can exclaim, with pleasure and amazement, 'I made this myself!”

William Coperthwaite (1930–2013) American yurt builder

Page 99
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity

Pleasure

“The beautiful is not that which we love and because we love it, but that which by its objective value obliges us to love it.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2006, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, World Wisdom, 96, 978-1-933316-28-4]
God, Beauty

Beauty , Love

“Objective intelligence, free will, virtuous soul: these are the three prerogatives that constitute man.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 97, 978-1-93659765-9]
Human being, Specificities

Soul , Intelligence

“Moral liberty and intellectual objectivity constitute a priori man’s deiformity.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, 9, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Deiformity

“The secret irony pervading these arguments [on objections to the goodness of God] is that they would never have occurred to consciences that had not in some profound way been shaped by the moral universe of a Christian culture.”

David Bentley Hart (1965) American theologian

Source: The Doors of the Sea (2005), Chapter 1, Section 2, location 144

God , Universe , Secret , Way

“It’s very hard to be objective in terms of my performances because I don’t really tend to go back and watch them and analyze them. In terms of the processes and in terms of the jobs, I tend to love my last one the best.”

Jenna Coleman (1986) English actress

Source: INTERVIEW: THE SERPENT’S JENNA COLEMAN https://brieftake.com/interview-the-serpent-jenna-coleman/ (April 1, 2021)

Love

“We are in a state of bloodless civil war. No common principles, no respect for common institutions or traditions unite the various groups of politicians, who are struggling for power. To loot somebody or something is the common object under a thick varnish of pious phrases.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

Letter to W. H. Smith (5 February 1889), quoted in Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (2001), p. 65
1880s

War

“[W]hat is most important to us, most of the time, is not the objective results of a decision, but the subjective results.”

Barry Schwartz book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Source: The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Time , Decision

“I’m not particularly interested in collecting things, but there’s one sort of running motif in my life: despite my basic indifference, objects just seem to collect around me, of their own volition.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: Haruki Murakami official FB profile https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=440734884083102&set=a.294927818663810

Indifference , Life

“Whoredom and bastardy are defects with regard to a female slave, but not with regard to a male ; because the object in the purchase of female slave, is cohabitation and the generation of children...”

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1117–1197) muhaddith, faqih and author (1135-1164)

Al-Hidayah (593 AH, 1197 CE), Charles Hamilton's translation, 1791
Source: Hidayah (Muslim law book), Hamilton, II, 409. https://archive.org/details/TheHedayaCommentaryOnIslamicLawsByShyakhBurhanuddinAbuBakrAlMarghinani/page/n249/mode/1up (Also quoted in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Ch. 11)

Children

“What is the object of defense? To preserve. To preserve is easier than to acquire.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

Source: On War (1832), Book 6, Chapter 1.

“If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

Source: On War (1832), Book 6, Chapter 1.

War , Strong

“But if the assailant, without troubling himself about the existence of the Army awaiting his attack in a defensive position, advances with his main body by another line in pursuit of his object, then he 'passes by the position,' and if he can do this with impunity, and really does it, he will immediately enforce the abandonment of the position, consequently put an end to its usefulness.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

Source: On War (1832), Book 6, Chapter 1.

“I object to the suppression of the truth. I think the injustice of not being able to bring light to the situation dissolves all equitable application of the rule of law.”

Paul Gosar (1958) American politician and dentist

Appealing for Tommy Robinson on Twitter, as quoted in * 2018-07-19
Ronald J. Hansen
The Arizona Republic
Paul Gosar takes up for U.K. anti-Muslim activist, is accused of aiding a bigot.
Source: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/07/19/paul-gosar-takes-up-anti-muslim-activist-accused-aiding-bigot/798818002/

Light , Truth , Law , Thinking

“...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.”

Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) French philosopher

Source: Thought Without a Body? (1994)
Perigrenations Law Form

Pain , Pleasure , Feeling

“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.”

Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement

Source: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought/uCh14nl09jkC?hl=en (1930), p. 14

God , Mathematics

“The primary object of marriage was, undoubtedly, the preservation of the race, though there are other objects which, under special circumstances, may become paramount even to this.”

John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) American physician

Source: Plain Facts For Old and Young, p.124

Marriage

“I think I always try to go in with a very objective perspective at first. Inevitably, when playing someone like her, after a while you tend to really sympathize with her. It was very hard for me to divorce myself from that opinion.”

Tania Raymonde (1988) American actress

Source: Tania Raymonde: The Jodi Arias Trial ‘Unfolding In Real Time’ While FilmingLifetime Movie Was A ‘Trip’ https://hollywoodlife.com/2020/08/08/jodi-arias-lifetime-movie-tania-raymonde-interview/ (August 8, 2020)

Thinking

“In the ideal state, man treats the races of beings affiliated with him, not as objects of pillage, but as beings with rights and feelings and capabilities of happiness and misery, like himself.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: The New Ethics (1907), Silent Martyrs of Civilization, p. 64

Happiness , Feeling

“Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 29

Imagination

“The most treasured resource is our people and, if their health deteriorates, productivity and excellence will become mere talking points and not achievable objectives.”

Linah Mohohlo (1952–2021) Botswana banker

Source: PRODUCTIVITY WEEK DINNER DANCE ADDRESS https://www.bankofbotswana.bw/sites/default/files/speech-documents/productivity-week-dance-october-25-2001.pdf (October 25, 2001)

People , Health

“Mystery is a word with no objective pertinence, merely describing the limitations of a mind. In fact, a mind may be classified by the order of the phenomena it considers mysterious.… The mystery is resolved, the solution made known. “Of course, it is obvious!” comes the chorus. A word about the obvious: it is always obvious.… The common mind transposed the sequence, letting the mystery generate the solution. This is logic in reverse; actually the mystery relates to the solution as the foam relates to the beer.…”

Jack Vance book The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph

The Unspeakable McInch (p. 39; all ellipses in the original)
Short fiction, The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Beer

“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That's all you need.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IX, 6

“Can any modern fox-hunter honestly say that his hunting is done with the legitimate object of getting rid of a noxious animal in the quickest way? It is nothing of the kind. It is plain that instead of men hunting with any object of getting rid of foxes, the fox exists simply for the purpose of being hunted. But for the practice of hunting, the fox would long ago have been as extinct in England as his cousin the wolf.”

Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) English historian (1823-1892)

Source: 'The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review (October 1869), quoted in E. A. Freeman, The Morality of Field Sports (1874), p. 18

Wolf , Way , Animals , Men

“It is impossible for the same attribute at once to belong and not to belong to the same thing and in the same relation"; and we must add any further qualifications that may be necessary to meet logical objections. This is the most certain of principles, since it possesses the required definition; for it is impossible for anyone to suppose that the same thing is and is not, as some imagine that Heraclitus says.”

Aristotle book Metaphysics

Book IV, 1005
Metaphysics
Original: (el) τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ ἅμα ὑπάρχειν τε καὶ μὴ ὑπάρχειν ἀδύνατον τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτό （καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα προσδιορισαίμεθ᾽ ἄν, ἔστω προσδιωρισμένα πρὸς τὰς λογικὰς δυσχερείας）: αὕτη δὴ πασῶν ἐστὶ βεβαιοτάτη τῶν ἀρχῶν: ἔχει γὰρ τὸν εἰρημένον διορισμόν. ἀδύνατον γὰρ ὁντινοῦν ταὐτὸν ὑπολαμβάνειν εἶναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι, καθάπερ τινὲς οἴονται λέγειν Ἡράκλειτον.
Source: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0051%3Abook%3D4%3Asection%3D1005b

Imagination

“Mauritius will continue to pursue its engagement with its friendly partners and international organizations with the objective of generating mutual goodwill and building stronger relationships.”

Alan Ganoo (1951) Mauritian politician

Source: Alan Ganoo (2022) cited in: " Foreign Minister reiterates Mauritius's Commitment in Building Stronger Ties with its Friendly Partners https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/press-releases/story/Foreign_Minister_reiterates_Mauritiuss_Commitment_in_Building_Stronger_Ties_with_its_Friendly_Partners-AFPR1901202210498/" in Zawya, 19 January 2022.

“People who object to the by-product hypothesis [for female orgasm] are doing something strange: They're saying that it's hugely important to them that female orgasm turns out to be an adaptation, like vomiting, cobra venom, and the scorpion's stinger, rather than a "mere" cultural invention, like science, medicine, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 59

People , Universe , Science

“The idea of an object is the idea of its effects, of what it will do, and of what will happen to it, under various conditions.”

Otis Hamilton Lee (1902–1948) American philosopher

Source: [The Review of Metaphysics, 1, 4, June 1948, 32–58, Pragmatism and Existence, https://www.pdcnet.org/revmetaph/content/revmetaph_1948_0001_0004_0032_0058]

Idea

“I’ve heard that some of the larger spiders hunt songbirds. I have no objection to that. The spiders belong here, too. Let nature do what it needs to do. We who are people know more than to guide ourselves by nature’s practices.”

Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer

The Tales of Zanthias (published in Weird Tales (July-August, 2003); reprinted in David G. Hartwell (ed.), Year’s Best Fantasy 4 (pp. 400-401))
Short fiction

People , Nature

“Fear is of two kinds, viz., natural or rational fear, when there is a threatening situation to endanger life; and unnatural or unusual fear which has no objective reality.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

Conquest of Fear (c-1960)

Life , Fear , Nature , Reality

“Damn it, man: anyone who can treat another human being as an object for target practice is stuck even further back in the infantile stage than somebody who’s frightened to move on from the masturbation phase and go to bed with a girl!”

John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 78 (p. 284)

Girl

“Objects freeze and fix spaces that are otherwise indeterminate and ambiguous, they compress information – and that is why people continue to construct them.”

Kengo Kuma (1954) Japanese architect (b.1954)

1954

People

“One of the things that we need to take from this moment is that this isn’t just about abortion and it’s not going to end with abortion. But if we are going to register any kind of objections, we need a functioning, healthy democracy. And that’s the first thing that they have disrupted.”

Melissa Murray (1975) American professor of law

"Why Roe Was Never Enough—and What Comes Next" https://msmagazine.com/2022/05/03/roe-v-wade-abortion-democracy-voting-rights-history/, Ms. magazine (May 3, 2022)

Democracy

“It is time to consign to oblivion the cold war postulates when Europe was viewed as an arena of confrontation divided into "spheres of influence" and someone else's "forward-based defences", as an object of military confrontation — namely a theatre of war.”

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1980s, Council of Europe address (1989)

War , Time

“The devolution debate will be based upon a proposition no less objectively false than to assert that two and two make five. It is the proposition that it is possible to establish one or more local parliaments within the unitary parliamentary state known as the United Kingdom.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

Speech to the City Conservative Forum in London (12 November 1975), quoted in The Times (13 November 1975), p. 4
1970s

Falseness

“Judgements on the performance of our economy require a clearly defined objective. Too often... there are multiple and contradictory objectives. Unless we are clear on our... objectives, we are not able to evaluate performance as good or bad...”

Henry Kaufman (1927) American economist

Interest Rates, the Markets, and the New Financial World (1986)

“I grew up in a world where there was no warmth - not from my parents, not from my friends or teachers. I felt somehow superfluous, forever in the way, an object of criticism.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) Russian politician and political activist

"OBITUARY Vladimir Zhirinovsky, dark showman of the Russian far right" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/obituary-vladimir-zhirinovsky-dark-showman-russian-far-right-2022-04-06/

Teachers , Way , Parent , World

“A new reality is being formed: the unipolar world is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past, a multipolar one is taking shape. It’s an objective process. It’s unstoppable. In this reality, more than one power will “rule” it will be necessary to negotiate between all the key states that today have a decisive influence on the world economy and politics. At the same time, realizing their special situation, these countries ensure compliance with the basic principles of the UN Charter, including the fundamental one – the sovereign equality of states. No one on this Earth should be seen as a minor player. Everyone is equal and sovereign.”

Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister

As quoted in Meet the New, Resource-Based Global Reserve Currency https://www.unz.com/pescobar/meet-the-new-resource-based-global-reserve-currency/, 31 March 2022

Country , Reality , Decision , World

“To require that all of these must be reducible to a single version is to make the mistake of supposing that 'Which are the real objects?' is a question that makes sense independently of our choice of concepts.”

Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) American philosopher

Lecture I: Is There Still Anything to Say about Reality and Truth?
The Many Faces of Realism (1987)

Question , Sense

“We have outlined under a number of headings our objectives and the ideal for which we struggle.”

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) Italian anarchist

An Anarchist Programme (1920)

“Fiction film is really different from documentary in this aspect. It is less objective, because the director expresses a subjective point of view with the movie. I would like the movie to look like a documentary, look real.”

Zhang Yimou (1950) Chinese actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer

"No one to be Missed" in Off Screen https://offscreen.com/view/zhang_yimou (April 1999)

“Environmental protection is both the objective and the basic content of sustainable development. Nowadays, climate change, environmental pollution, energy security, water security... have become global problems, but no one country can deal with them alone.”

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949) Prime Minister of Vietnam

"Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng’s speech at the 4th National Conference on Environment" http://tapchimoitruong.vn/english-edition-i-2015-39/Prime-Minister-Nguy%E1%BB%85n-T%E1%BA%A5n-D%C5%A9ng%E2%80%99s-speech-at-the-4th-National-Conference-on-Environment-18093 (30 October 2015)

Water , Change , Country , Problem

“It is time for everyone finally to realize that sustainable development is not only necessary for maintaining the existing security systems at the global, regional and national levels, but is also an objective condition for the existence and development of our entire civilization.”

Leonid Kuchma (1938) Second president of Ukraine

Speech at the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1994)

Time

“Conscientious objection is a universally established right; I think that sometimes the problem is how it is understood or put into practice. Doctors and nurses have the right to have their moral, spiritual, and personal convictions respected, but never in detriment to or contempt of anyone.”

Rogelio Cabrera López (1951) Roman Catholic archbishop

Church supports conscientious objection for medical professionals in Nuevo Leon https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/42683/church-supports-conscientious-objection-for-medical-professionals-in-nuevo-leon (27 October 2019)

Personality , Universe , Problem , Thinking

“Cultural products which present women who do not want to be household slaves or universal mothers or sex objects as bitches or sexual failures objectively aid male supremacy.”

Meredith Tax (1942) American writer

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

Bitch , Universe , Failure , Sex

“Cultural products which present foreign wars as the heroic effort of a master race to ennoble mankind are, to the degree they are successful as art, objectively in the interests of imperialists, who are people who make foreign wars against other races for profit.”

Meredith Tax (1942) American writer

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

War , People , Success , Art

“Shit scared them [the Surrealists]. Shit and arseholes. Yet, what was more human and more needful of transcending! From that moment, I know I would keep on obsessing them with what they most dreaded. And when I invented Surrealist objects, I had the deep inner fulfillment of knowing, while the [Surrealist] group went into ecstasies over their operation, that these objects very exactly reproduced the contradictions of a rectal sphincter at work, so that what they were thus admiring was their own fear.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

as cited in The Unspeakable confessions of Salvador Dali, Parinaud, ed. W. H. Allen, London 1976, p. 113
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Comment on deviant Dali, les aveux inavouables de Salvador Dali

Fear