Laws. . . proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.
How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.
What you are willing to lose will be proportionate to what you are able to win.
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
. . . it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.
The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.
All envy is proportionate to desire.
When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
