Cesare Beccaria Quotes

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

The magistrate has the right to enforce what he thinks, and he who is conscious of the truth has a right to suffer.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it..

Mexicans!... It would appear that justice had fled from this world, leaving you to the caprice of your oppressors, who have become each day more furious toward you.... My part is taken, the voice of revelation whispers ... that the Lord will enable me, with powerful arm, to fight against our enemies.

Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions; therefore it destroys freedom.

O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!

In the transition epoch, surely crimes will come. Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect Liberty to undo in a moment what Oppression has been doing for ages?

No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world.