
“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
“Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)
Context: It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
“The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger”
Source: Head Over Heels
Source: 1970s-1980s, The Limits Of Organization (1974), Chapter 1, Rationality: Individual And Social, p. 25
“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”
Source: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).
Hal R. Varian, Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Chapter 33. Welfare, 2002
Letter to James Lloyd (1 October 1822)
Published in Education Leadership, September 2005 http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/uncondtchg.htm