Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fashion, Teenage, Book

• The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Pain, Drinking, Winning

• Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Beer, Epidemics, Ideas

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

• People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Cutting, Thinking, Years

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Gerry Khermouch, www.bloomberg.com. July 30, 2001.

• When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  New York, Epidemics, Dollars

• So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fighting, Police, Crime

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, People, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Evil, Sin

  Malcolm Gladwell (2009). “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures”, p.140, Hachette UK

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