Cesare Beccaria Quotes

By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust.

Cesare Beccaria

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: March 15, 1738 - November 28, 1794

Topics

NatureJusticeMenBondUnderstand

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MyselfKnowRunAwayWouldThyself

An empty canvas is full.

Robert Rauschenberg

ArtCanvasEmptyFull

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Jeff Bezos

InnovationThinkWayBoxOutGet

Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

Lloyd Cutler

YouSituationImportantSayOver

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley

AttitudeGameAlwaysThrowWanted

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

Dove Cameron

CharacterMeWorldJust BecauseJust

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

Donna Summer

FriendSongYouNewKnowSaid

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

Dorothea Dix

TimeShortAttentionWillFirst

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

Sydney Pollack

YouPresentationAboutAnotherEve

I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.

Susanna Fogel

PeopleStartedLikeReallyNicole

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.

Richard Lugar

TimeSmallSecuritySituationOthers

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

Mark Haddon

ChildrenPossibilitiesEscapeBegin

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