You are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters.

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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.

— Daniel Waterman