Cesare Beccaria Inspirational Quotes (5)

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

Happy is the nation without a history.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.