In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets,… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but… — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
