Aim

Famous quotes containing the word aim:

    “[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other—that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)