Object Quotes

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade.

The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays – not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

I’m not a sex symbol.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.