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Criminologist Inspirational Quotes (257)

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To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
Denise Mina
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I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.
Denise Mina
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Loudness is impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
Gary Becker
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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 it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
James Q. Wilson
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Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.
Robert Ressler
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I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
Denise Mina
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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Gary Becker
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Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Freda Adler
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.
Park Dietz
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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 or fear-inspiring father.
James Q. Wilson
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
Eliot Ness
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
Gary Becker
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The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.
James Q. Wilson
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Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.
Meda Chesney-Lind
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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