#objective

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#end #fact #fight #in fact #may

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#common #common man #deceit #directed #eternal

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#enjoying #entertaining #leisure #life #main

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#environment #meet #objective #remains #track

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. ↗

— John Grierson

#did #discovery #distinguished #doing #exploration

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#detail #instances #memories #objectively #remarkable

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn. ↗

— Peter Hain

#await #back #back up #big #business

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. ↗

— George Halas

#because #life #many #objective #people

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #art #attitude #audience #because

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#gave #i #myself #objective #president