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“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice, proportionality may break down: offences created by the elite few become offences against the entire community.”

Justice Retribution The State Proportionality Offences

Book:Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility

Source: Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility

“It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.”

Giving Doe States Reality Seems Might Results Property Experiments Objectives Distinction Quantum Mechanic Discussing Quantum Mechanics Vectors Proportionality

Author:Roger Penrose

“Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.”

Persons Different Certain Left Justice Principles Figures Ought Argument Burden Income Limitation Relative Supporter Progression Proportionality

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.”

Firsts Numbers Special Limits Perfection Fairness Unification Oddness Triads Proportionality Special Beauty

Author:Iamblichus

“The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.”

Looks America Happened Dog Ass Unemployment Housing Fleas Proportionality

Author:Dylan Ratigan

“Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.”

Character Numbers Rejection Discouraged Intimidated Discouragement Intimidation Consecutive Proportionality

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Example Unity Representation Proportionality

Author:Peter Adamson

“If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?”

Ifs Thinking Fairs Unfair Proportionality

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.”