A Quote by Joseph de Maistre
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
Quote Topics
Quote Author
Related Quotes
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.
Related Authors
Alva Myrdal Quotes
Swedish
Diplomat
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
French
Diplomat
Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
Swedish
Diplomat
Daniel Fried Quotes
American
Diplomat
Greig Fraser Quotes
Australian
Diplomat
Hans Blix Quotes
Swedish
Diplomat
James Bryce Quotes
English
Diplomat
Jean Kennedy Smith Quotes
American
Diplomat
Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes
American
Diplomat
Lawrence Eagleburger Quotes
American
Diplomat
Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
American
Diplomat
Miroslav Lajcak Quotes
Slovak
Diplomat
Nizar Qabbani Quotes
Syrian
Diplomat
Richard Grenell Quotes
American
Diplomat
Richard N. Haass Quotes
American
Diplomat
Sergei Lavrov Quotes
Russian
Diplomat