Proportionate Response Quotes

I never use my sword when the lash suffices, nor the lash when my tongue is enough.

For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.

if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Don’t hit until you have to, but when you do hit, hit hard.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

… intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force.

What has happened is the 'stand your ground' law has become so over-arching that the definition has been lost. There's a lot of people claiming 'stand your ground.'

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

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.

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.

You would have to go really crazy on me before I throw a punch.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

We shall be justified before God and man in resisting force with force.

I don't wreck people on purpose - unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.