Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals… Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share
