Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
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I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That's what passed for Baltimore sports.
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When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.
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My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
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Activists can improve their alternative media success by embracing alternative currencies like Bitcoin.
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I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
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The defenders were hunted down and killed. Even when they tried to surrender, they were killed, for their fortress had resisted and that was the fate of garrisons that showed defiance.
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
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As one of the most conservative members of Congress and a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment, I am constantly under attack for my values and beliefs.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
