Delinquents Quotes - Page 2

• For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.

  Michael Marmot

  Children, Dollars, Development

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• The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Religious, Divine, Penalties

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

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• The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

  B. F. Skinner

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

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• When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of 2 Corinthians 10:6 and Hebrews 13:17, etc., they should also agree to submit to the authority and discipline of the church, should they be found delinquent in doctrine or life.

  Jay Adams

  Light, Discipline, Church

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• Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

  Peggy Noonan

  Adults, Want, Journalism

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Growing Up, Littles, Juvenile

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• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  Larry Elder

  Dad, Men, White

  "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.

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• In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

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• I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.

  Emmanuelle Bercot

  Compassion, Understanding, Looks

  "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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• A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Democracy, Citizens

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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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• My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

  Steve Olson

  Art, Self, Giving

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• By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  School, Able, Saws

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?

  Katy Lederer

  Thinking, Brain, Debt

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• Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

  Frank Sinatra

  Rocks, Expression, Aphrodisiac

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• Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Order, Numbers, Independence

  "Asphyxiating Culture". Book by Jean Dubuffet, 1968.

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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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• Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

  John Waters

  Government, House, Parent

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• The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.

  Bel Kaufman

  Art, Children, Reading

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• In an age of abstract experience, fornication
  Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
  And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
  Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
  Are precious.

  Allen Tate

  Christian, Self, Expression

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.16, Macmillan

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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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• It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Smart

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.28, Penguin

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• I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

  John Waters

  Parent, Let Me, Juvenile

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• Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Trying, Looks, Like You

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