Cesare Beccaria Quotes

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.

Cesare Beccaria

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

Jim Rash

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I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.

Jens Lekman

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Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Sophocles

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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Sidney Poitier

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The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.

Simon McBurney

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If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.

Tom King

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When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.

Misha Collins

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I love scary films.

Millie Bobby Brown

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One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Lou Reed

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To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

Rihanna

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