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Criminologist Inspirational Quotes (257)

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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
James Q. Wilson
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Gary Becker
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote Garnethill because I didn't get that job!
Denise Mina
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Happy is the nation without a history.
Cesare Beccaria
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Freda Adler
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I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
Denise Mina
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
Denise Mina
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The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense (2) national defense and (3) preservation of individual liberty.
Don Kates
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
Freda Adler
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
James Q. Wilson
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There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.
John E. Douglas
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Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.
Gary Becker
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My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
Denise Mina
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