Juvenile Delinquency Quotes

• My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Running, Country

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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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• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1", 1956.

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Age, Delinquency, Fraud

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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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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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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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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• This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Divorce, Ideas

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• I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

  William S. Burroughs

  America, Police, Village

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

  Eartha Kitt

  America, People, Giving

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• I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Numbers, Opinion, Film

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