Subtraction Quotations

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.