Character Quote by James Q. Wilson Download Open image “Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.” — James Q. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Crime
“Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief. — George Allen Copy Share Image
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the… — Karin Slaughter 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 Image
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Image
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
