“Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.”
Boris Sidis The Source and Aim of Human Progress
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
— Leon Trotsky, book The Revolution Betrayed
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
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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.
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“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993) British naval historian
Source: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).
Alfie Kohn (1957) American author and lecturer
Published in Education Leadership, September 2005 http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/uncondtchg.htm
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Artifact (1985)
John Allen Paulos book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Source: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995), Chapter 50, “Which Way Mecca?” (p. 198)
Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) American historian and economist
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter IV, Part 1, A Recapitulation, p. 177