The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

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

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

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

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

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

Happy is the nation without a history.

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 confidence than an armed man.

happy is the nation without a history

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

when you love somebody you justify negative sides of this person but if you are disappointed in your love u lose every chance to do it

Create simple ways to prove the Divine exists in every aspect of your life and then make the choice to cast your gaze only upon those things that make your heart sing loudest.

Thing in Everything

There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.