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. James Q. Wilson More Quotes by James Q. Wilson More Quotes From James Q. Wilson A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. James Q. Wilson defense government power Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. James Q. Wilson crime pay character Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. James Q. Wilson talking mean people There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged. James Q. Wilson We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage. James Q. Wilson political mind men I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. James Q. Wilson red-lipstick tape way But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government James Q. Wilson size scope government 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. James Q. Wilson gun want way Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures. James Q. Wilson criminals guilt thinking I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care James Q. Wilson poor care believe Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims James Q. Wilson struggle peace people Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. James Q. Wilson expression self character In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. James Q. Wilson virtue running long There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now. James Q. Wilson left new-york The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important. James Q. Wilson wall achievement people Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. James Q. Wilson name liberty nature law
