James Q. Wilson Quotes

• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, San Francisco, Years

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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

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  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.

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  Fire, Light, Car

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• One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

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  Broken, Cost, Care

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• Muchas, si no la mayoría, de las dificultades que experimentamos al tratar con las agencias gubernamentales surgen de que éstas forman parte de un sistema político fragmentado y abierto... La característica central del sistema constitucional estadounidense -la separación de poderes- agrava muchos de estos problemas. Los gobiernos de Estados Unidos no se diseñaron para ser eficientes o poderosos, sino para ser tolerables y maleables. Quienes diseñaron estos acuerdos siempre supusieron que el gobierno federal ejercería pocos y limitados poderes.

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  Powerful, Exercise, Agency

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• Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

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  Order, Broken, Firsts

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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.

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  Broken, Community, Police

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.138, American Enterprise Institute

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• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

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  Family, Powerful, Children

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• The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.

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  War, Views, People

  James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

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  Broken, Doe, Cost

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

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  People, Criminals, Needs

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• Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

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  Character, Pay, Crime

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• There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

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• El gran logro de la cultura occidental desde la Ilustración es hacer que muchos de nosotros nos asomemos por encima del muro y concedamos cierto respeto a las personas que están fuera de él; el gran fracaso de la cultura occidental es negar que los muros sean inevitables o importantes.

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  Wall, People, Achievement

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• [in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.

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  Writing, Land, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.

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  Country, Expression, Corporations

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• Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

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  Character, Self, Expression

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.2, American Enterprise Institute

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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.

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  Drunk, Community, Unjust

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.132, American Enterprise Institute

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• In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

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  Running, Long, Virtue

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.23, American Enterprise Institute

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• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

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  Mistake, School, Monopoly

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

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• The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.

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  Pensamiento, Opiniones, Personas

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• 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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  Believe, Pay, Crime

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

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• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

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  Gun, Want, Way

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

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• Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

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  Family, Strong, Father

  James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

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  Rights, Support, Public Opinion

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

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