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

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.

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

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

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.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.

you don't need any [money] to do [Parkour], just a pair of good shoes and that's all.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.