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Criminologist Inspirational Quotes (257)

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Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.
Earnest Hooton
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.
George Thorndike Angell
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone
Denise Mina
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.
James Q. Wilson
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The conscience is more wise than science.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.
James Alan Fox
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.
James Q. Wilson
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As your enemies and your friends, so are you
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Women are proverbially credulous.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Journalism is a Darwinian process.
Denise Mina
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A great passion has no partner.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
Adolphe Quetelet
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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