Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Fighting crime is not cheap, because it requires boots on the ground.

It's no coincidence that the cities with the highest rates of violence also have the highest rates of unemployment. There are not many opportunities. We have to address that, starting from the government down and the grassroots up.

There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always will be - the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Crime is a product of social excess.

The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

Upon the state falls directly the ... burden of the demoralization of its citizenry and of the social unrest which attend destitution and the denial of opportunity.

There is no system of regulation or law that can prevent crime, white collar or otherwise.

The security of the Republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and ignorant; in indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

We are sorry for the hungry, enough to give them food, but not sorry enough to tackle the CAUSES which make hunger possible. We are sorry for the unemployed, but not sorry enough to shoulder the job of abolishing unemployment by means of A NEW AND DARING INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.

I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I saw so many 15, 16, even 20 year-olds who could not read, had little hope that they would ever find work, faced more challenges than opportunities in life, dropped out of school at some point, and turned to crime.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education - and they're not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam.