Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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Even the poor should give something to charity.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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That man made me miss my destiny.
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The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
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If you are part of the majority it can be hard to realise how much it matters to see people who do look like you, and can relate to you on a really simple level especially when you are growing up. I had a happy childhood in other aspects, but being different in this way was something that has probably shaped me in some ways.
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Happy is the nation without a history.
