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

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles Sturt

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
Joseph Hume

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
James Lovelock

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Ambrose Bierce

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul Bert

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.
Marcus V. Pollio

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Timothy Garton Ash

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah Strong