"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom"

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Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

James Q. Wilson

#Believe Quotes #Pay Quotes #Crime Quotes

“Lack of understanding is always painful.”
“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
“We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.”
“People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.”
“When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.”
“The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.”
“Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure”
“What I believe is a process rather than a finality.”

Source : Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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