Beccaria On Crimes Quotes

#1. When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

Rupert Spira

#2. It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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#3. The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

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#4. I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

Randa Haines

#5. If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.

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#6. If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

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#7. Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

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#8. For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

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#9. You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison.

Debasish Mridha

#10. You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you.

Ray Bradbury

#11. Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.

John Steinbeck

#12. To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

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#13. Isn't it funny how trusting husbands are? How easily they eat the food put in front of them by their wives, without ever wondering if there might be something wrong with it.

You could mix anything in it, and they would never know.

Sudha Kuruganti

#14. Follow your passion to find the motivation needed to work hard enough, or you will eventually fail.

Ben Tolosa

#15. Any who stand in my way shall be cut down!

Cao Cao