#reduce

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#fun #gets #i #making #me

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. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#ethics #leadership #management #mere #politics

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#doing #everything #i #reduce #republicans

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#carry #certain #cockroaches #door #energy

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#changed #discussion #dramatically #entitlements #future

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #budgets #cover #ever #goal

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. ↗

— Jan Morris

#love #mystic #reduce

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#been #cuz #film #formula #reduced