"Objector" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a long discussion, from which Agathemer and I learned nothing except that there was much insubordination among the men following Maternus and that the scrawny objector was named Torix. ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... save in the England of today. At first the talk was general, ranging over a number of subjects from that of the personality of certain politicians to the conduct of the war and the disturbing problem raised by the "conscientious objector"; little by little, however, the rest of us became silent, to listen to a debate which had begun between the labour leader and the ship-builder on the "labour question." It is not my purpose here to record what they said. Needless to ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... who indeed had actually invented that so "corruptible" and essentially worthless parsley crown in place of the more tangible prizes of an earlier age. Strange people! Where, precisely, may be the spring of action in you, who are so severe to yourselves; you who, in the words of Plato's supposed objector that the rulers of the ideal state are not to be envied, have nothing you can really call your own, but are like hired servants in your own houses,— qui manducatis ...
— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater
... to the previous studies in the dead languages, which are required before an admittance can be obtained in our common colleges, the objector proceeds.] ...
— A Series of Letters In Defence of Divine Revelation • Hosea Ballou
... is the second objection to the above syllogism; for anything within the whole range of the possible may, for aught that we can tell, be competent to produce a self-conscious intelligence. Thus an objector to the above syllogism need not hold any theory of things at all; but even as opposed to the definite theory of materialism, the above syllogism has not so valid an argumentative basis to stand upon. We know that what we call ...
— Thoughts on Religion • George John Romanes
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