“The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.” PeopleKindHas BeensWarViewsMoralMankindFairsJust OneRemarkableTreatmentApplicationEntitled Book:The Moral Sense Source: The Moral Sense
“It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.” Has BeensCountryGrowsExpressionSurpriseCorporationsFallenHostilitySuspiciousGeneral Public Author:James Q. Wilson
“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.” ThinkingWayHas BeensLostCasesCourtGuiltVariousCriminalsLawyerTrialsInnocenceManipulationOperaSoapProceduresVerdictSearch For TruthSoap OperasLengthyPreschoolMolestationLost Confidence Author:James Q. Wilson
“The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHumansHas BeensImportantHardTermViewsImpossibleConditionsPolicyConservativeCampaignsPresidentialLatterHuman ConditionJohnsonSkepticPublic PolicyPresidential CampaignJohn Kennedy Author:James Q. Wilson
“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.” PeopleMenHumansChildrenHas BeensStillsEnoughAgeTogetherProcessPowerfulResponsibilityFamilyProduceMen And WomenUniversalBasesInstitutionsExpectedAccessPartnersTiesOutcomesHistorianSelectionRaising ChildrenFormationKinshipLiving TogetherAnthropologists Author:James Q. Wilson
“If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.” IfsHas BeensStatesDoneOpinionSupportGoneRightsCourtSupremeRadicalAssumptionSupreme CourtPublic OpinionStates RightsDevolution Author:James Q. Wilson
