Crime Quote by James Q. Wilson Download Open image “What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.” — James Q. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Criminals Criminals People Explanation Explanation People Needs Needs Explanation People People Criminals
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. — Olavo de Carvalho Copy Share Image
“who says they're all criminals? -he parried- some might actually be innocent. others may need someone to explain them. there are reasons why we… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
Some people, because of their needs, go and become criminals. I have been very fortunate that I wasn't attracted to these kinds of solutions. — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Criminals are just regular people who didn’t have time to read all the laws. — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
“It’s a well-known secret that most criminals are extremely lazy and unwilling to make extra efforts, even when those efforts may mean increased rewards.… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part… — Keir Starmer 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
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image