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Proportion Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst…
- I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power…
- We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
- Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in…
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- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake
- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright