Reduced Quotes

533 Reduced quotes by 462 unique authors

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their… — Plato
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love… — Genghis Khan
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened… — Henry Ford
Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it… — Karl Popper
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette
One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a… — Alice von Hildebrand
The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are… — George Carlin
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as… — Jorge Luis Borges
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no… — Walter Pater
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want… — Errico Malatesta
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett
Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena ofÂ absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or… — Michel Houellebecq
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other… — Hunter S. Thompson
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is… — John Pawson
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… — William James
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. — James MacGregor Burns
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions… — Christopher Lasch
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler

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