The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

-Dulles,John Foster
Comment to his brother Allen. Quoted in Peter Grose Gentleman Spy (1994).

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an'objective correlative'†such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Hamlet and His Problems'.

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position.On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of societyas one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth.On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.

-Lewontin, Richard Charles
  'Sex, Lies, and Social Science', in the NewYork Review of Books, 20  Apr.

A jazz performance centers upon the process of creation. The final objective is not only the finished product, but the path and process taken towards it.

-Liebman, David
  Self-Portrait of a Jazz- Artist, ch.3.

We tend to justify our actions and in a sense we color history to achieve that objective.

-McNamara, Robert Strange
Quoted in Robert Siegel (ed)  The NPR Interviews (1994).

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

It isusual tospeakof the Fascist objective asthe'beehive state', which does a grave injustice to bees. A world of rabbits ruled by stoats would be nearer the mark.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.12.

We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, blind with smoke.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Counter-Attack'.