Quotes by : Cesare Beccaria

By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals....

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection....

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power....

happy is the nation without a history

When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge....

Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The....

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous....

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural....

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I....