Reduce Quotes - page 2

In the long run, the most important changes required to make globalization work are reforms to reduce the democratic deficit. (Joseph Stiglitz)
The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. View quote
William Godwin
It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest. View quote
Upton Sinclair
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. View quote
Anaïs Nin
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them. View quote
Joan Robinson
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely. View quote
John Templeton
Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. View quote
Camille Paglia
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed. View quote
Benjamin Graham
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type. (Thomas R. Marshall)
The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. View quote
Albert Camus
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation. View quote
Kenneth Clark
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection. View quote
Thucydides
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure. View quote
Jacques Maritain
I have therefore thought that it would be a worthy and very useful thing to reduce the whole of this great art to a complete and orderly form of presentation, and then in different books to lay down and explain the required characteristics of different departments. View quote
Vitruvius
They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business. View quote
Milton Friedman
Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
...the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora. View quote
Bill Mollison
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence” achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail. (Herbert Marcuse)
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. View quote
Mason Cooley
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work. View quote
Rudolf Bultmann
It's expensive to keep Communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling-I don't care how. View quote
Nicolae Ceaușescu