Reduced

Famous quotes containing the word reduced:

“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army’s beautiful. But that’s not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)