Reduce

Famous quotes containing the word reduce:

“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.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the ultima ratio.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)