Cesare bonesana beccaria quotes

“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment”
― Cesare Beccaria

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that it has no remedy for evils, except destruction.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are of such a nature. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
― Cesare Beccaria

“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.”
― Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments

“  Every punishment which