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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
— Robyn Hitchcock
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
— Patrick Caddell
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
— Thomas De Quincey
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
— Bryan Q. Miller
The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
— Charles Edward Montague
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
— Michael J. Fox
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
— Calvin Trillin
I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
— David Weinberger
Your lips, an inverse chaos of stars.
— Gwen Calvo
Many people strive for success in order to find happiness when, in fact, the inverse is true. Strive for happiness and you shall find success.
— Steve Maraboli
inverse of the word live is evil.
— Ben Okri
There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!
— Guy Deutscher
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
— Chris Boucher
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
— Aldous Huxley
The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
— Ann Beattie
The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.
— Marcel Proust
There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.
— David Allen
The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
— Aldous Huxley
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He ... discovered that people's goodwill was frequently in inverse relationship to their position ...
— Richard Flanagan
I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.
— Jack Canfield
The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
— Idries Shah
How Not to Talk to Your Kids, The inverse power of praise.
— Mattison Grey
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
— Bill Gates
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[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
— Sir Laurens Van Der Post
Remember, there's an inverse relationship between your head and your heart. If your head swells, your heart shrinks. Tucker,
— Charles Martin
Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
— Thomas Pynchon
The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.
— Peter Cundill
Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.
— Peter Thiel
It was the inverse of an island in the sea.
— Elisabeth Eaves
His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
— Irvine Welsh
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
— Lawrence Fagg