Cesare Beccaria quoteCesare Beccaria [1738-1794]
Italian Judge 
Quote rank: 202
| To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice. |
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