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 figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Patterns

• If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • America
  • Down
  • Burn

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• 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.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Earth
  • Marriage
  • Enjoy

• What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Easy
  • Worth
  • Forgiving

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

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Positive

• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Job
  • Man
  • Out

• Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Responsible
  • Chemistry

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men

• Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Insecurity

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Done
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Ray Charles
  • People
  • Together
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Music
  • Angry

• I think the larger productions in India are very methodical and pretty much on the ball in terms of work. When I say work, I mean pre-production and the homework that's required.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Work
  • Pretty

• From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Experience
  • Years
  • Missionary

• Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.

  

  Amber Mark
  • Music
  • Nostalgia
  • Opening

• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Mother

• 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