"The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful."

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Source : Cesare Beccaria (marchese di) (1963). “On crimes and punishments”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

Cesare Beccaria

#War Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.”
“We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.”
“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.”
“You can't eat your friends and have them too”
“When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.”
“The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.”

Source : Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation
“Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.”

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