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Criminologist Inspirational Quotes (257)

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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare Lombroso
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I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.
Denise Mina
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older she is going to be worried about her brother and sister she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
Denise Mina
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Conscience is wiser than science.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
James Q. Wilson
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
Earnest Hooton
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A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
Denise Mina
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
James Q. Wilson
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
Denise Mina
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I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
George Thorndike Angell
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
Cesare Lombroso
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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