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“An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.”

Self Individual Arrogance Proportion Assurance Self Assurance

Book:Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

Source: Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

“As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.”

People Individual Force Labor Handle Symbols Proportion Fewer Manipulate Labor Force

Author:C. Wright Mills

“You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.”

Has Beens Individual Perfect Animal Existence Creation Creatures Goodness Mercy Species Proof Treated Proportion Faculty Mercy Of God

Author:Maimonides

“The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.”

Country States Character Government Individual Influence Example Proportion Consumption

Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.”

“I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.”

“Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.”

Heart Soul Individual Perfect Brain Doubt Philosopher Satisfied No Doubt Proportion Seats Contentment Murmuring

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“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.”

Political Individual Numbers Rights Groups Citizens Mass Increase Proportion Rulers Monopoly Political Rights

Author:Paul Lafargue

“A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”

Men Wells Has Beens War Past Fighting Individual Nations Materials Amount Standards Army Soldier Proportion Equations Standards Of Living

Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.”

Persons Individual Existence Greater Development Mass Individuality Valuable Proportion Units Fullness Fullness Of Life

Book:On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays

Source: On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays