It is the American vice, the democratic disease which…

The American vice is explanation.

— Gore Vidal

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The…

— Felicity Jones

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

— Felicity Jones

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete…

— Nelson Mandela

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

— Richard Wagner

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it…

— Clifford Geertz

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…

— Doris Lessing

Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little…

— Joshua Reynolds

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

— Catherine Wilson

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

— George Will

By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the…

— Jim Ryun

Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar…

— Amy Ridenour

Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice…

— Emma Watson

There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

— Walter Willett

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great…

— Bernie Siegel