"It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them."

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Source : Cesare Beccaria (2016). “On Crimes and Punishments”, p.107, Transaction Publishers

Cesare Beccaria

#Crime Quotes #Pragmatism Quotes

“All my life I have fought corruption.”
“It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.”
“When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”
“The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.”
“If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.”
“I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.”
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.”

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