“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
Leon Trotsky book The Revolution Betrayed
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.”
Leon Trotsky book The Revolution Betrayed
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
“Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
Gregory Benford book Timescape
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”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Head Over Heels
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) American economist
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.”
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).
Hal Varian (1947) American economist
Hal R. Varian, Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Chapter 33. Welfare, 2002
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Letter to James Lloyd (1 October 1822)
Alfie Kohn (1957) American author and lecturer
Published in Education Leadership, September 2005 http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/uncondtchg.htm