All James Q. Wilson Quotes
- Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. Control
- The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every… Access
- 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… Acquire
- 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… Agencies
- 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… All
- 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… Accumulates
- In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. Function
- I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. Administrative
- But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government Federal
- 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… Believe
- 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… Assumption
- 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… American
- I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care Believe
- 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… Aim
- 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… Based
- 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,… Based
- What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. Criminals
- Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. Abandoning
- A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. Defense
- There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged. All
- During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four… Ancestry
- There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now. All
- In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. Depends
- Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. Becomes