A Quote by John Galsworthy

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
English - Novelist
August 14, 1867 - January 31, 1933

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

Kirkpatrick Sale

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Harry Segall

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

Norman Cousins

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Paul Lafargue

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Soong May-ling

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

Michael J. Fox

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Karl Marx

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

Paul de Rapin

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

Edward Hallowell

The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.

Mark Colvin

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