Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes

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

Cesare Beccaria

• Men
• Should
• Crime
• Punishment
• Intensity

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• I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

  

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• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  

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• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

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• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  

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• I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

  

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  • Done
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• Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.

  

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  • People
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• I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.

  

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  • People
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• You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

  

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• If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

  

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  • Up
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• Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

  

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• I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

  

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• The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

  

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• And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

  

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• I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.

  

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  • People
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• Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.

  

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  • Men
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• The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

  

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

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Men
  • Should
  • Crime