Delinquency Quotes

• The plague of government is senile delinquency.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Government, Plague, Senile

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

  Sheldon Glueck

  Fathers Day, Father, Strict

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• I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  War, Competition, Unemployment

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• God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

  Robert Browning

  God, Track, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

  Antonin Artaud

  Mean, Soul, Humanity

  Antonin Artaud (1988). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, America, Parent

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• I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sex, Way

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 124

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• Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, People, Creative

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• Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

  Harry S. Truman

  Children, Home, Kids

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor.

  Ginuwine

  Kids, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Evil, Special, Adults

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• Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Scum, Way

  1597-8 King Henry to Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.254-5.

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• We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

  Jean Genet

  Cheating, Adventure, Games

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• Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gentleman, Eternity

  "Gentlemen-Rankers" st. 1 (1892)

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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Age, Fraud, Schools And Education

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.

  Leland Yee

  Children, School, Player

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• The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

  Frank Sinatra

  Earth, Faces, Rock N Roll

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

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• The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

  Paul Mazursky

  Careers, Acting, Trying

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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Education, School, Age

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.

  Herbert Spencer

  Results

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “The Study of Sociology”, p.385

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• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

  David O. McKay

  Strong, Children, Character

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• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Children, Long

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Stories, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.49, Macmillan

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• For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Kids, Way, Known

  Alma Guillermoprieto (2011). “The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now”, p.104, Vintage

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