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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. -- Robert Browning
Those who lack administration refuse codes, rules and laws. And those who refuse codes, rules and laws are considered delinquent. Delinquency is one of the children of mental disorders. While religion is set of codes, rules and laws; so those denying religion are psychotic. Atheists are psychotic. -- Junaid e Mustafa
The plague of government is senile delinquency. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. -- Rudyard Kipling
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. -- Edgar Friedenberg
The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving. -- Sheldon Glueck
For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S. -- Ben Bernanke
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
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
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
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. -- Robert McKee
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
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. -- George Eliot
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born... -- Marquis de Sade
Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies. -- Herbert Spencer
There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents. -- J. Edgar Hoover
According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,' and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a 'sex-addict. -- Ilana Mercer
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. -- David Dudley Field II
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
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law. -- Thorstein Veblen
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
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
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
High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency. -- Rodney Stark
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. -- Peter S. Jennison

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