Youth And Crime Quotes

#1. Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

E.W. Howe

#2. It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

Jodi Picoult

#3. It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.

Vera Brittain

#4. What's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

Stephanie Coontz

#5. Make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.

Jim Butcher

#6. In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.

Sigmund Freud

#7. Styles become dated. Style doesn't.

Russell Malone

#8. I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

Jo Nesbo

#9. Youth's scorn and its revolt against the established order, youth's readiness for everything that is heroic, whether it is self-sacrifice or crime, its fiery seriousness and its unsteadiness - all this is nothing but its fluttering attempts to fly.

Robert Musil

#10. The moment when you take your first step through the gates of hell, the only thing you will hear is all of creation standing to its feet and applauding and praising God because God has rid the earth of you. That's how not good you are.

Paul Washer

#11. Steroids are used in all sports.

Dorian Yates

#12. For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Riane Eisler

#13. Hope sinks a world of imagination.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#14. What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Frank Abagnale

#15. Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

Jeff Tweedy

#17. But he had been the victim of the world's most common crime - his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again

Aurelio Voltaire

#18. India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams

Narendra Modi

#19. Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.

Jen Sincero

#20. All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between.

Bruce Lee

#21. Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

John Waters

#22. All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]

Toni Morrison

#23. I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.

Edward Zigler

#24. I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Hector Elizondo

#25. Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Richard Avedon