
“Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.”
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
“Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.”
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
“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
“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).
Published in Education Leadership, September 2005 http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/uncondtchg.htm
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter IV, Part 1, A Recapitulation, p. 177