False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men be…

- Cesare Beccaria

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 tho…

- Cesare Beccaria

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the mi…

- Cesare Beccaria

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

- Cesare Beccaria

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

- Cesare Beccaria

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 con…

- Cesare Beccaria

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

- Cesare Beccaria

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

- Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

- Cesare Beccaria