“A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.”
Thomas De Quincey book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Appendix.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
Source: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 129 (in 1933 edition)
“A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.”
Thomas De Quincey book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Appendix.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“Infanticide and infant neglect exist in inverse ratio to the accessibility of abortion services.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 10 (p. 173)
William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospi…
"Teaching and Thinking" in The Montreal Medical Journal (1895).
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 80 (p. 802)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) British political economist
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIII, paragraph 2, lines 19-22
Wendy Doniger (1940) American Indologist
Wendy Doniger, Quoted in The Washington Post. Quoted in Antonio de Nicolas, Krishnan Ramaswamy, and Aditi Banerjee (eds.) (2007), Invading the Sacred: An Analysis Of Hinduism Studies In America (Publisher: Rupa & Co., p. 13), also in Rajiv Malhotra: Wendy's Child Syndrome https://rajivmalhotra.com/library/articles/risa-lila-1-wendys-child-syndrome/, also in Rajiv Malhotra: Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology (2016)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) British political economist
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter I, paragraph 18, lines 1-2
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles (1744)