Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Cesare Beccaria

• Men
• May
• Law
• Arms
• Greater
• Homicide
• Unarmed

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Less

• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Education
  • Like
  • Follow

• I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Ridiculously

• If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Hands
  • Innovation
  • Step

• I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Truth

• In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She
  • Equality
  • Partner

• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Work
  • Money

• I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Sorry

• Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Knowledge
  • Reading

• For my part, I favour an approach to statecraft that embraces principles, as long as it is not stifled by them; and I prefer such principles to be accompanied by steel along with good intentions.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Good
  • Long

• We had enough of people who think like you, that they know what god wants and that they've got god on their side. That they can tell us what to do or what to think in this way.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • God

• That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Different
  • True

• Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin' hot. That's the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

  

  Fred Ward
  • World
  • Men
  • Trying

• I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Life

• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Men
  • May
  • Law