James Q. Wilson Quotes
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Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
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The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every…
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Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening…
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Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open…
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We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific…
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Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a…
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government
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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for…
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If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for…
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There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they…
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I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in…
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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 genuine…
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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 it,…
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What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.
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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
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A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
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There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.
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