“It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“ If every individual be bound to society, society is equally bound to him, by a contract which from its nature equally binds both parties.… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“ Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more general thus:… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
