Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Andrew Vachss
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Rights
Kids
Home
Pow
Children
Geneva
Abusive
Convention
Conventions
Fewer
More quotes by Andrew Vachss
Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
Andrew Vachss
If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
Andrew Vachss
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
Andrew Vachss
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
Andrew Vachss
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Andrew Vachss
Information is the hardest currency.
Andrew Vachss
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
Andrew Vachss
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
Andrew Vachss
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
Andrew Vachss
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
Andrew Vachss
It's the family you choose that counts.
Andrew Vachss
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
Andrew Vachss
Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand, the father had told his adoring son. And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone. ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
Andrew Vachss
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Andrew Vachss
I don't sign contracts for my books.
Andrew Vachss
A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
Andrew Vachss
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
Andrew Vachss
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
Andrew Vachss
He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
Andrew Vachss
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
Andrew Vachss