Reduce Quotes

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! (Winston Churchill)
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. View quote
Josh Billings
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. View quote
William Wordsworth
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. View quote
Jack Herer
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' View quote
Peter Drucker
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. View quote
Martin Feldstein
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. View quote
Emil Cioran
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn. (John le Carré)
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. View quote
Manuel Puig
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. View quote
James Heckman
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. View quote
Cass Sunstein
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. View quote
Christopher McDougall
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. View quote
Bobby Scott
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate. View quote
Frank Vincent
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. View quote
Ike Skelton
The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less. (Nick Rahall)
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. View quote
George Eliot
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction. View quote
José Rizal
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion. View quote
Theodor Adorno
When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules. View quote
Norman Mailer